LEE KUAN YEW - In His Own Words 🇸🇬
Compilation Thread of Short Clips of Singapore’s Founder Lee Kuan Yew on his Political Philosophy 🧵
“Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him - or give it up! This is not a Game of Cards, this is your life and mine!”
“The Human Being is an unequal creature”
“I am not interested in being loved”
“What have I given up? My life”
“Ten years ago this was a mudflat. In ten years this will be a metropolis”
“Why pays?”
“If we had not intervened-”
“If the Communist had won, we would be impoverished”
On Drug Traffickers
“If I openly call a man a liar and he does not dare to sue me, there is something basically wrong”
“What political party helps an opposition to come into power?”
“I ignore polling as a matter of Government”
“They say we are obsessed with profits”
“Even if you are lowering me into the grave - if I feel like something is going wrong, I’ll get up”
@alfiethreetimes And they say you have to be an Anglo-Saxon to be to English…
“It is not practical to treat everybody as equal … it will lead to irreparable damage. It is dangerous to allow these highfalutin ideas to mislead Singapore”
More Quotes by Lee Kuan Yew
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