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People Quotes by Lee Kuan Yew
- I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind - an inability to chart a course whichever…
- 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…
- 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…
- That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I knew the people will be…
- What are our priorities? First, the welfare, the survival of the people. Then, democratic norms and processes which from time to time we have to…
- Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this
- 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…
- The ideas of individual supremacy and the right of free expression, when carried to excess, have not worked. They have made it difficult to keep…
- It is essential to rear a generation at the very top of society that has all the qualities needed to lead and give the people…
- Now if democracy will not work for the Russians, a white Christian people, can we assume that it will naturally work with Asians?
- If you don’t include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society…So…
- We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extremists. If you don’t…
- China can draw on a talent pool of 1.3 billion people, but the United States can draw on a talent pool of 7 billion and…
- You’re talking about Rwanda or Bangladesh, or Cambodia, or the Philippines. They’ve got democracy, according to Freedom House. But have you got a civilised life…
- They say people can think for themselves? Do you honestly believe that the chap who can’t pass primary six knows the consequence of his choice…
- Well if done a lot of hard work to try and get people to act rationally, the fact that weve had 15 deviant Muslims, plus…
- What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.
- If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.
- I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be…
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- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle