Pol Pot Quotes

What Nixon and Kissinger began, Pol Pot completed.

— John Pilger

Pol Pot will surrender, be captured or commit suicide.

— Hun Sen

In the exhibition at Galerie Perrotin, they have the Sarajevo painting - I think it's very good to nail down this story…

— Erro

My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that…

— Sydney Schanberg

Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia.

— Sydney Schanberg

And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed atrocities in…

— Dinesh D'Souza

One of the scandalous things I did was as I read them afterward I would burn them. I loved them, but for…

— Cheryl Strayed

I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. I encouraged the Thailand|Thai to help the Khmer Rouge. The question was how to…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“For Pol Pot, as for every other kamikaze of Kingdom Come, "the goal was not to destroy but to transmute." We have…

— John Leonard

Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual…

— Ricky Gervais

It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was…

— P. J. O'Rourke

It's the camel's nose in the tent. Look at Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin--every one of these monsters,…

— Charlton Heston

“Even now, and you can look at me: Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear. —POL POT The eradication of…

— Stanley Bing

I know that it's probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or…

— Al Franken

When I see the mostly young people of Occupy Wall Street - a mixture of the bored, the nihilistic, the seekers of…

— Dennis Prager

And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed atrocities in…

— Dinesh D'Souza

There's too much political hay to be made undercutting the war, and the consequences be damned. If they want to defeat the…

— James Lileks

It is no accident that Hitler, Lenin, Pol Pot and other butchers of note took special pains early in their despotic careers…

— Tony Snow

It's a real enigma why people are so averse to real free market capitalism even now. Here we are, in the century…

— Joseph Sobran

One Mongolian leader became a very, very brutal dictator and eventually became a murderer. Previously, he was a monk, and then he…

— Dalai Lama

“As a Nobel Peace laureate, I, like most people, agonize over the use of force. But when it comes to rescuing an…

— Jose Ramos-Horta

Socialism, whether it's the 'soft tyranny' of the EuroAmerican management state or the murderously repressive forms taken by Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or…

— L. Neil Smith

“I argue that three key doctrines of postmodernist thought have conspired to discredit the classical concept of ideology. The first of these…

— Terry Eagleton

“As he breathed the black and grey air into his body he no longer thought of anything as lovely, the way the…

— William T. Vollmann

“Yet the sources of their fanaticism are left undefined. The “last night” letter of the terrorists is posted on a wall, but…

— Anonymous

“The world has far too much morality, at least in the sense of activity of people's moral instincts. If you look, and…

— Steven Pinker

“DIVINE LIGHT,MURDEROUS LIGHT The flames crackle. On the pyre burn discarded mattresses, discarded easy chairs, discarded tires. A discarded god also burns:…

— Eduardo Galeano

“Among the nations of Earth in all its history, ours is one of the precious few that has not brought forth its…

— Dean Koontz

If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done…

— Dick Durbin

Stalin, Lenin, Marx, Mao, Pol Pot, Antifa, Castro, Che Guevara and the like use power to reduce the sanctity of the individual…

— Stephen Moore

“Like the moon, the novel is a symbol and a necessary reality. Ideally it serves neither gods nor masters. Philosopher’s stone, it…

— Rikki Ducornet

“Mesto ni zapor in norišnica, mesto je za večino potnikov prehodna postaja na njihovi poti. Toda nihče ne ve, kje je njegova…

— Drago Jančar

“Work, then, institutionalizes homicide as a way of life. People think the Cambodians were crazy for exterminating themselves, but are we any…

— Bob Black

“Socialists are convinced socialism will work if it's only managed by the right people. It's one of the reasons so many socialist…

— Tom King

“Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot all employed mass imprisonment, each presiding over a process that arrested and incarcerated millions. Such systems are…

— David Cay Johnston

“The Left’s great fight is with material inequality, not with evil as normally understood. Thus, the Left has always been less interested…

— Dennis Prager