Pol Pot Quotes

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

  Pol Pot

  Mistake, Enemy, Innocent

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

  Pol Pot

  Enemy, Protest, Corpses

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

  Pol Pot

  Pot, Grass, Grows

  c.1975 Quoted in John Pilger DistantVoices (1992), section 5.

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

  Pol Pot

  Disease, Medication, Dose

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

  Pol Pot

  Loss, Use, Gains

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• 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.

  Pol Pot

  Gun, People, Savages

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Pol Pot

  People, Pot, Mass

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• Hunger is the most effective disease.

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  Disease, Hunger

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• To kill the grass you must also remove the root

  Pol Pot

  Roots, Grass, Remove

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

  Pol Pot

  Country, Evil, Leader

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No gain in keeping, no loss in weeding out.

  Pol Pot

  Weed, Loss, Gains

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• The sick are victims of their own imagination.

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  Sick, Imagination, Victim

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

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  Sick, Remains, Dies

  Source: natethayer.typepad.com

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• 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.

  Pol Pot

  Stress, Wish, Want

  "Day of Reckoning". "Far Eastern Economic Review" Magazine, October 1997.

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• Whoever wishes to blame or attack me is entitled to do so. I regret I didn't have enough experience to totally control the movement. On the other hand, with our constant struggle, this had to be done together with others in the communist world to stop Kampuchea becoming Vietnamese.

  Pol Pot

  Regret, Struggle, Hands

  "Day of Reckoning". "Far Eastern Economic Review" Magazine, October 1997.

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• It's up to history to judge.

  Pol Pot

  Judging

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• For the other people, the babies, the young ones, I did not order them to be killed. For Son Sen and his family, yes. I feel sorry for that. That was a mistake that occurred when we put our plan into practice. I feel sorry.

  Pol Pot

  Baby, Sorry, Mistake

  Source: natethayer.typepad.com

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• There's what we did wrong and what we did right. The mistake is that we did some things against the people - by us and also by the enemy - but the other side, as I told you, is that without our struggle there would be no Cambodia right now.

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  Mistake, Struggle, People

  "Day of Reckoning". "Far Eastern Economic Review" Magazine, October 1997.

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

  Pol Pot

  Land, Wish, Pieces

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• Even now, and you can look at me, am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.

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  Savages, Looks, Look At Me

  Source: natethayer.typepad.com

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• We want only peace, to build up our country. World opinion is paying great attention to the threat against Democratic Kampuchea. They are anxious, they fear Kampuchea cannot oppose the Vietnamese. This could hurt the interests of the Southeast Asian countries and all of the world's countries.

  Pol Pot

  Country, Hurt, Asian

  "Pol Pot remembered" by Elizabeth Becker, news.bbc.co.uk. April 20, 1998.

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• I came to join the revolution, not to kill the Cambodian people. Look at me now. Am I a violent person? No. So, as far as my conscience and my mission were concerned, there was no problem.

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  People, Revolution, Looks

  "Day of Reckoning". "Far Eastern Economic Review" Magazine, October 1997.

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

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  Wanted, Vietnamese, Cambodia

  Source: natethayer.typepad.com

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

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  Struggle, People

  Source: natethayer.typepad.com

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

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  People, Leader, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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