Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Life is not just eating, drinking, television and cinema...The human mind must be creative, must be self-generating ; it cannot depend on… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that,… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Without the elected president and if there is a freak result, within two or three years, the army would have to come… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
What are our priorities? First, the welfare, the survival of the people. Then, democratic norms and processes which from time to time… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
We must encourage those who earn less than $200 per month and cannot afford to nurture and educate many children never to… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
If I were in authority in Singapore indefinitely without having to ask those who are governed whether they like what is being… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I think in Singapore, we stand a chance of making the one-man-one-vote system work. With amendments as we have done, you know,… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalization.. I hold unconventional views about this.. I do not believe if… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I’m not interested in changing either my suit or my car or whatever with every change in fashion. That’s irrelevant. I don’t… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle-dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
If you don’t include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
It is not the practice, now will I allow subversives to get away by insisting that I’ve got to prove everything against… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
The ideas of individual supremacy and the right of free expression, when carried to excess, have not worked. They have made it… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
But we either believe in democracy or we not. If we do, then, we must say categorically, without qualification, that no restraint… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you'll… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you'll… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I can only express the hope that faith in the judicial system will never be diminished, and I am sure it will… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
My colleagues and I are of that generation of young men who went through the Second World War and the Japanese Occupation… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
We have over a hundred political detainees, men against whom we are unable to prove anything in a court of law. Nearly… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Three women were brought to the Singapore General Hospital, each in the same condition and needing a blood transfusion. The first, a… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
“I did not know I was to spend the rest of my life getting Singapore not just to work but to prosper… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I feel sanguine enough to say that there has never been a better set of conditions for open democratic politics because there… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
The human being needs a challenge, and my advice to every person in Singapore and elsewhere: Keep yourself interested, have a challenge. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
If you are a troublemaker…it’s our job to politically destroy you. Put it this way. As long as JB Jeyaretnam stands for… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I pointed to an article with bold headlines reporting that the police had refused to allow the PAP to hold a rally… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I have no regrets.I have spent my life,so much of it, building up this country. There's nothing more that I need to… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
It is essential to rear a generation at the very top of society that has all the qualities needed to lead and… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence against any… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been, because millions… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I have said this on many a previous occasion: that had the mix in Singapore been different, had it been 75% Indians,… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I don't believe in love at first sight. I think it's a grave mistake. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
“You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you'll never put… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
The Bell curve is a fact of life. The blacks on average score 85 per cent on IQ and it is accurate, nothing to… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honourable purpose. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
If, for instance, you put in a Malay officer who's very religious and who has family ties in Malaysia in charge of a machine… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Supposing Catherine Lim was writing about me and not the prime minister...She would not dare, right? Because my posture, my response has been such… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
You marry a non-graduate, then you are going to worry if your son or daughter is going to make it to the university. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I knew the people will… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
India is scared of the competition... because Chinese goods will go into India and compete. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Three women were brought to the Singapore General Hospital, each in the same condition and needing a blood transfusion. The first, a Southeast Asian… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
![“It is not the practice, now will I allow subversives to get away by insisting that I’ve got to prove everything against them in a court of law or [produce] evidence that will stand up to the strict rules of evidence of a court of law.” quote by Lee Kuan Yew](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/132/lee-kuan-yew-3939_court_it-is-not-the-practice-now-will-i-allow_2724766.jpg)
