Mechai Viravaidya Quotations

This proves very clearly that despite the efforts and good wishes of the Thai government in putting its own resources into tsunami relief, Thailand does need a lot of foreign assistance,

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.

I thought at the time that the prime minister had confused his country with his own family,

With the demise and disappearance of public education, people think it's gone. I've had some kids say to me, 'Is AIDS still around?'

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.

Well I think its more important for them to make more Catholics than to prevent AIDS right now. I hope that at some point that position shifts.

The government budget, the lack of the declaration, the prime minister's abdication from the role, and the consequent weak public education program has resulted in what we have today: a tremendous increase,

We think it's underestimated. We don't want to be nasty and call it a lie, but I think it's pretty close to it,

Definitely if the Thai government doesn't need aid, civil society and the people do need it.

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.

AIDS is still around. Therefore, you have to practice safe sex.

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.

People were having sex before I was born. My parents had sex before I was born, nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to stop sex. I'm trying to stop people from dying from sex.

We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree

Take No as a question.

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.