Becoming Quote by Pol Pot

I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country.

— Pol Pot

When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want…

— Pol Pot

I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My…

— Pol Pot

Even now, and you can look at me, am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.

— Pol Pot

If you wish to live exactly as you please, the Angkar will put aside a small piece of land for you.

— Pol Pot

If someone is very hungry, the Angkar will take him where he will be stuffed with food.

— Pol Pot

I do not reject responsibility - our movement made mistakes, like every other movement in the world. But there was another aspect that was…

— Pol Pot

I came to join the revolution, not to kill the Cambodian people. Look at me now. Am I a violent person? No. So, as…

— Pol Pot

No gain in keeping, no loss in weeding out.

— Pol Pot

If you have a disease of the old society, take a dose of Lenin as medication.

— Pol Pot

For the other people, the babies, the young ones, I did not order them to be killed. For Son Sen and his family, yes.…

— Pol Pot

To kill the grass you must also remove the root

— Pol Pot