"If you don’t include your women graduates in……" — Lee Kuan Yew
"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 what happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb people in the next generation. That’s a problem."
—
Lee Kuan Yew
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
85 Quotes by Lee Kuan Yew
Lee Kuan Yew has 85 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
I knew that my niece was working nearby with some bank, so my wife rang up the mother and the…
-
Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something…
-
I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind - an inability…
-
I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been,…
-
Supposing Catherine Lim was writing about me and not the prime minister...She would not dare, right? Because my posture, my…
-
Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalization.. I hold unconventional views about this.. I do not believe…
-
If, for instance, you put in a Malay officer who's very religious and who has family ties in Malaysia in…
-
You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative…
-
That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I…
-
If Aljunied decides to go that way, well Aljunied has five years to live and repent.
-
If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence…
-
But we either believe in democracy or we not. If we do, then, we must say categorically, without qualification, that…
See all 85 quotes by Lee Kuan Yew »
More Breeding Quotes
This quote is filed under Breeding Quotes,
one of 174 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
— Aristophanes
-
We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling…
— Diane Ackerman
-
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense,…
— Joseph Addison
-
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or…
— Van Wyck Brooks
-
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
— Luther Burbank
-
Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than…
— Thomas Carlyle
-
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days…
— Lord Chesterfield
-
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
— Lord Chesterfield
-
You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
-
A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and…
— William Penn
-
Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.
— Jeffrey Sachs
-
Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like…
— Jean Anouilh
See all 174 Breeding Quotes »