Cambodia Quote by William Shawcross Download Open image “Cambodia was not a mistake; it was a crime. The world is diminished by the experience.” — William Shawcross ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cambodia Crime Experience Failure Mistake World
There's what we did wrong and what we did right. The mistake is that we did some things against the people — by us… — Pol Pot Copy Share Image
From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to… — Pete du Pont Copy Share Image
Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam. — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
The events that followed our withdrawal from Vietnam, including the plight of the boat people and the more than 1 million slaughtered by the… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The most beautiful thing in Cambodia isn't the country - it's the Cambodian people. — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
I'm quite satisfied on one thing: If we had not carried out our struggle, Cambodia would have become another Kampuchea Krom in 1975. — Pol Pot Copy Share Image
I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam. — Ed Bradley Copy Share Image
The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Vietnam was a terrible mistake for the United States. But like Iraq, Vietnam was a badly chosen battlefield in a larger conflict with totalitarianism… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
“said to the man who stood at the Gate of the Year, “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.”… — William Shawcross Copy Share Image
The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply… — William Shawcross Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth was so sweet this afternoon trying to show P.B. his sitting room. He became absorbed in some jungle prints along the passage and… — William Shawcross Copy Share Image
“After she married the Duke of York, she immediately transformed his life, bringing him love, understanding, sympathy and support for which he had always… — William Shawcross Copy Share Image
Together they [President Nixon and Secretary Kissinger] pursued ends that frequently had a tenuous link with reality, using means that were not merely disproportionate… — William Shawcross Copy Share Image
You cannot do justice to the dead. When we talk about doing justice to the dead we are talking about retribution for the harm… — William Shawcross Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You know the John Lennon song 'Imagine'? 'Imagine no possessions, no religion'? That's what it was like in Cambodia. The only thing people had… — Sophal Ear Copy Share Image
Everyone's a singer now, thanks to karaoke, for better and for much worse. But the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand,… — Alan Bishop Copy Share Image
When I arrived in America, though I had left the war physically far behind, in my mind, the soldiers were still chasing to kill… — Loung Ung Copy Share Image
It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
But, you know, I just did a big trip in the spring to Vietnam and Cambodia and Thailand, and that's when I bought a… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
If you can imagine the area and the land in Cambodia, I mean there are hardly any roads in big parts of the country.… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
A combination of stir-fry and salad, Lok Lak is a popular staple in Cambodia. It's usually made with beef, but in olden times, in… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
A government that intended to protect the liberty of the people would not disarm them. A government planning the opposite most certainly and logically… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back… — William Kunstler Copy Share Image