29 Quotes by Mechai Viravaidya

As far as my part of the world is concerned there's not even a tree,

It's clear that AIDS has returned to rise again .... We've gone back to days of ignorance, ... There's no reason why next year it won't be 100,000 new cases.

It's clear that AIDS has returned to rise again ... . We've gone back to days of ignorance, ... There's no reason why next year it won't be 100,000 new cases.

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

We're the ones causing global warming. In fact, what we ought to be saying is population growth is a major cause of it, so I hope to have a T-shirt out very, very soon: Stop global warming, use condoms.

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.

People like to have fun and they like to laugh. And when you laugh, it's much easier to convince people and they laugh with you, rather than being angry. And I think laughter's always nice and I've always liked it.

Most people don't want to work in commercial sex. They have little choice.