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Other 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…
- 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 that…
- 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 Singapore…
- 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 can only express the hope that faith in the judicial system will never be diminished, and I am sure it will not, so long…
- I am not given to making sense out of life - or coming up with some grand narrative on it - other than to measure…
More Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour