Southeast Asian Quotes by Pol Pot

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Pol Pot has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage…
• 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.…
• 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…
• Whoever wishes to blame or attack me is entitled to do so. I regret I didn't have enough experience to totally control…
• There's what we did wrong and what we did right. The mistake is that we did some things against the people —…
• 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.

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