Lee Kuan Yew Quotes
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India is scared of the competition ... because Chinese goods will go into India and compete.
— Lee Kuan Yew
A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.
— Lee Kuan Yew
I'm not intellectually convinced that one-man, one-vote is the best. We practise it because that's what the British bequeathed us
— Lee Kuan Yew
The exuberance of democracy leads to undisciplined and disorderly conditions which are inimical to development.
— Lee Kuan Yew
I have been accused of many things in my life, but not even my worst enemy has ever accused me of being afraid to speak my mind.
— Lee Kuan Yew
Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don't understand this
— Lee Kuan Yew
You need a certain standard of literacy, moral and ethical values, to be able to run a one man, one vote system.
— Lee Kuan Yew
At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life.
— Lee Kuan Yew
If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.
— Lee Kuan Yew
I wish I can meet my wife in the hereafter, but I don't think I will. I just cease to exist just as she has ceased to exist.
— Lee Kuan Yew
If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.
— Lee Kuan Yew
Now if democracy will not work for the Russians, a white Christian people, can we assume that it will naturally work with Asians?
— Lee Kuan Yew
If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.
— Lee Kuan Yew
If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.
— Lee Kuan Yew
Start with putting three of your friends to jail. You definitely know what for, and people will believe you
— Lee Kuan Yew
Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will get up.
— Lee Kuan Yew
The same law applies to me. Nobody has sued me for libel because I do not defame my enemies.
— Lee Kuan Yew
The Japanese high command recognised the sexual needs of the men and provided for them. As a consequence, rape was not frequent.
— Lee Kuan Yew
You either use the Internet or you are backward.
— Lee Kuan Yew
You marry a non-graduate, then you are going to worry if your son or daughter is going to make it to the university.
— Lee Kuan Yew
I'm not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honourable purpose.
— Lee Kuan Yew
Having an education is one thing, being educated is another.
— Lee Kuan Yew
Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I'm meaningless.
— Lee Kuan Yew
what they had endured
— Lee Kuan Yew
If you can't think because you can't chew, try a banana.
— Lee Kuan Yew
Without the elected president and if there is a freak result, within two or three years, the army would have to come in and stop it
— Lee Kuan Yew
I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.
— Lee Kuan Yew
I always tried to be correct, not politically correct.
— Lee Kuan Yew
As you solve one set of problems, new ones appear. That is part of the nature of life.
— Lee Kuan Yew
I would not score very highly on religious value.
— Lee Kuan Yew
I believe that life is a process of continuous change and a constant struggle to make that change one for the better.
— Lee Kuan Yew