Pol Pot Quotes

He who protests is an enemy; he who opposes is a corpse.

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

Hunger is the most effective disease.

To kill the grass you must also remove the root

Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.

Better to kill an innocent by mistake than spare an enemy by mistake.

We will burn the old grass and the new will grow.

I came to carry out the struggle, not to kill people.

The first time I heard of Tuol Sleng, it was on the Voice of America. I listened twice.

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

The Vietnamese ... wanted to assassinate me because they knew without me they could easily swallow up Cambodia.

Exterminate the 50 million Vietnamese and purify the masses of the [Cambodian] people.

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

I'm quite satisfied on one thing: If we had not carried out our struggle, Cambodia would have become another Kampuchea Krom in 1975.

In Khmer we have a saying that when one is both quite sick and old there remains only one thing, that you die.

The sick are victims of their own imagination.

I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader.

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

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

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

It's up to history to judge.