Pol Pot Quotes

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• I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience…
• Better to kill an innocent by mistake than spare an enemy by mistake.
• He who protests is an enemy; he who opposes is a corpse.
• I came to join the revolution, not to kill the Cambodian people. Look at me now. Am I a violent person? No. So, as far…
• I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader.
• We want only peace, to build up our country. World opinion is paying great attention to the threat against Democratic Kampuchea. They are anxious. They…
• Whoever wishes to blame or attack me is entitled to do so. I regret I didn't have enough experience to totally control the movement. On…
• There's what we did wrong and what we did right. The mistake is that we did some things against the people — by us and…
• To kill the grass you must also remove the root
• Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.
• Exterminate the 50 million Vietnamese and purify the masses of the [Cambodian] people.
• The first time I heard of Tuol Sleng, it was on the Voice of America. I listened twice.
• No gain in keeping, no loss in weeding out.
• We will burn the old grass and the new will grow.
• It's up to history to judge.
• I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country.
• When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to…

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