"If Singapore is a nanny state, then I……" — Lee Kuan Yew
"If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one."
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85 Quotes by Lee Kuan Yew
Lee Kuan Yew has 85 quotes on this site.
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I knew that my niece was working nearby with some bank, so my wife rang up the mother and the…
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Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something…
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I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind - an inability…
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I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been,…
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Supposing Catherine Lim was writing about me and not the prime minister...She would not dare, right? Because my posture, my…
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Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalization.. I hold unconventional views about this.. I do not believe…
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If, for instance, you put in a Malay officer who's very religious and who has family ties in Malaysia in…
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You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative…
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That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I…
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If Aljunied decides to go that way, well Aljunied has five years to live and repent.
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If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence…
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But we either believe in democracy or we not. If we do, then, we must say categorically, without qualification, that…
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More Fostered Quotes
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one of 63 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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No pains must be spared to wipe out all feeling of diffidence, embarrassment, or shame on the part of those…
— Heber J. Grant
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Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial,…
— Agnes Repplier
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Innovation is fostered by information gathered from new connections; from insights gained by journeys into other disciplines or places; from…
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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The misconception that there is serious disagreement among scientists about global warming is actually an illusion that has been deliberately…
— Al Gore
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We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.
— Jerome Bruner
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Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and…
— Noam Chomsky
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The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree…
— Victor Hugo
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I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The popularity of the paranormal, oddly enough, might even be grounds for encouragement. I think that the appetite for mystery,…
— Richard Dawkins
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Here, the revolution was prepared. Here it was achieved. Here all the great events were fostered.
— Georges Couthon
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