I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defense, should one think of killing any animal. - Morarji Desai

Consideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good.

Very often, unfortunately the wrong kind of publicity appears in the press...That happens. Is God free from it? Was Mahatma Gandhi free from it? It’s due to ignorance also. Some of these people deliberately misquote.

You are quite correct in saying that I banned the export of monkeys on a humanitarian basis and not because the number was lessening.