Quotes from Mechai Viravaidya

In the Buddhist scriptures, it said many births cause suffering, so Buddhism is not against family planning.

When you start learning how to give when you're young, when you get older it is second nature. Just like stealing. Start young and you keep on stealing forever. Ask my politicians.

I left the government because I saw the only way to get family planning moving, was to do it outside the government. I was never disillusioned with government.

What could I do with $1 million? What can I do with the satisfaction that I perhaps today helped somebody to have a better life. That's real reward. The million dollars, nothing.

The condom has saved so many lives and it'll save so many more lives. We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.

We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.

I find it disturbing that men who are products of highly developed economies come to a developing nation solely to exploit their women and their children.