Lee Kuan Yew Quotes - Page 3

• My colleagues and I are of that generation of young men who went through the Second World War and the Japanese Occupation and emerged determined that no one–neither Japanese nor British–had the right to push and kick us around. We determined that we could govern ourselves and bring up our children in a country where we can be proud to be self-respecting people.

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  Country, Children, War

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• We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extremists. If you don’t do that, the country would be in ruins.

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  País, Religión, Gente

  "Lee Kuan Yew, founding father of modern Singapore, dies aged 91". Interview With Peter Lloyd, www.abc.net.au. March 23, 2015.

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• One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic.

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  Inspiring, Men, Erratic

  Lee Kuan Yew (2013). “The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew”, p.46, Editions Didier Millet

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• Incluso desde mi lecho de enfermo, incluso si me van a bajar a la tumba y siento que algo va mal, me levantaré.

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  Inspirar, Enfermo, Cama

  Dicho en el Mitin del Día Nacional de 1988. "The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia: Volume 2, The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries". Libro editado por Nicholas Tarling, 1992.

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• It is essential to rear a generation at the very top of society that has all the qualities needed to lead and give the people the inspiration and the drive to make it succeed. In short, the elite.. Every society tries to produce this type. The British have special schools for them: the gifted and talented are sent to Eton and Harrow.

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  Inspiration, School, People

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• I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time questioning whether they are able to do a better job than we can.

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  Inspiring, Jobs, War

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• Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards.

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  Inspiring, Games, Iron

  Said at a rally in 1980. "Singapore's Founding Father Lee Kuan Yew Dies at 91", www.bbc.com. March 23, 2015.

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• I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind - an inability to chart a course whichever way the wind blows, whichever way the media encourages the people to go, you follow. If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.

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  Blow, Thinking, Government

  "Historias de éxito de Lee Kuan Yew". DVD, documental, 2002.

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• Al fin y al cabo, lo que más aprecio son las relaciones humanas. Con el apoyo incondicional de mi mujer y mi compañera, he vivido mi vida al máximo. Son las amistades que he hecho y los estrechos lazos familiares que he cultivado los que me han proporcionado esa sensación de satisfacción por una vida bien vivida, y me han convertido en lo que soy.

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  Ties, Wife, Support

  Lee Kuan Yew (2013). “The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew”, p.160, Editions Didier Millet

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• Now if democracy will not work for the Russians, a white Christian people, can we assume that it will naturally work with Asians?

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  Christian, White, People

  "American Leaders Swooning Over Singapore’s Thuggish Founder Are Blind Politically, Not Just Morally" by Jim Sleeper, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2015.

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• No creo en el amor a primera vista. Creo que es un grave error.

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  Inspiring, Mistake, Believe

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• No me interesa cambiar ni de traje ni de coche ni de lo que sea con cada cambio de moda. Eso es irrelevante. No me juzgo ni juzgo a mis amigos por sus modas. Por supuesto, no apruebo a la gente descuidada e innecesariamente desaliñada... Pero no me impresiona un traje de Armani de 5.000 o 10.000 dólares.

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  Fashion, Judging, Car

  Lee Kuan Yew (2013). “The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew”, p.148, Editions Didier Millet

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• You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you'll never put Singapore together again: Humpty Dumpty cannot be put together again... my asset values will disappear, my apartments will be worth a fraction of what they were, my ministers' jobs will be in peril, their security will be at risk and their women will become maids in other people's countries, foreign workers.

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  Country, Jobs, Together Again

  Straits Times, April 5, 2007.

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• Para mí es irrelevante lo que piensen de mí los jóvenes singapurenses. Lo que piensen de mí después de mi muerte, dentro de una generación, lo determinarán los investigadores que hagan doctorados sobre mí, ¿no? Así que habrá mucho revisionismo. Como la gente revisó a Stalin, a Brezhnev y un día ahora a Yeltsin, y más tarde a Putin. He vivido lo suficiente para saber que uno puede ser idealizado en vida y vilipendiado después de muerto.

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  Pensar, Largo, Gente

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• I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be here today.

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  Inspiring, Citizens, Done

  The Straits Times, 20 de abril de 1987.

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• To straddle the middle ground and win elections, we have to be in charge of the political agenda. This can only be done by not being beaten in the argument with our critics. They complain that I come down too hard on their arguments. But wrong ideas have to be challenged before they influence public opinion and make for problems. Those who try to be clever at the expense of the government should not complain if my replies are as sharp as their criticisms.

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  Clever, Winning, Government

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• If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.

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  Inspiring, Business, Outsourcing

  "Rage against off-shoring is very real" by David Kirkpatrick, www.cnn.com. February 23, 2004.

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• There is nothing to prevent you from pushing your propaganda, to push your programme out to the students or with the public at large…and if you can carry the ground, if you are right, you win. That’s democracy.

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  Winning, Democracy, Pushing

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• Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle-dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no way you can govern a Chinese society.

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  Hurt, Thinking, Chinese

  "Lee Kuan Yew: El hombre y sus ideas". Libro de Han Fook Kwang, Warren Fernandez, Sumiko Tan, 1997.

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• Si no incluyes a tus mujeres licenciadas en tu grupo de reproducción y las dejas en la estantería, acabarás siendo una sociedad más estúpida... ¿Y qué ocurre? Habrá menos gente brillante para mantener a la gente tonta en la próxima generación. Eso es un problema.

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  Stupid, People, Support

  National Day Rally, 1983.

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• We must encourage those who earn less than $200 per month and cannot afford to nurture and educate many children never to have more than two… We will regret the time lost if we do not now take the first tentative steps towards correcting a trend which can leave our society with a large number of the physically, intellectually and culturally anaemic.

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  Regret, Children, Numbers

  Presenting the Abortion Bill, sprs.parl.gov.sg. December 23, 1969.

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• But we either believe in democracy or we don't. If we do, then, we must say categorically, without qualification, that no restraint from the any democratic processes, other than by the ordinary law of the land, should be allowed. If you believe in democracy, you must believe in it unconditionally. If you believe that men should be free, then, they should have the right of free association, of free speech, of free publication. Then, no law should permit those democratic processes to be set at nought.

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  Creer, Hombres, Ley

  Legislative Assembly Debates, April 27, 1955.

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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 if you are a libertarian, full of diverse opinions, full of competing ideas in the market place, full of sound and fury, therefore you will succeed.

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  Believe, Hands, Ideas

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• If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one.

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  Inspiring, Nannies, Proud

  "From Third World to First, The Singapore Story: 1965-2000". Book by Lee Kuan Yew, 2000.

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• What is of consequence is I did my best.

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  Consecuencia

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