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Men Quotes by Lee Kuan Yew
- I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been, because millions of years have…
- If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence against any written law –…
- But we either believe in democracy or we not. If we do, then, we must say categorically, without qualification, that no restraint from the any…
- I’m not intellectually convinced that one-man, one-vote is the best. We practise it because that’s what the British bequeathed us
- 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, like GRCs.. We…
- We have over a hundred political detainees, men against whom we are unable to prove anything in a court of law. Nearly 50 of them…
- My colleagues and I are of that generation of young men who went through the Second World War and the Japanese Occupation and emerged determined…
- One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic.
- I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been. . .by observation, reading, watching,…
- There are some flaws in the assumptions made for democracy. It is assumed that all men and women are equal or should be equal. Hence,…
- I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.
More Men Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle