Lee Kuan YewMost libels, and I have taken about 30 actions, take place at election time. It has not stuck because I am prepared to go before a court, stand in the witness box and face the mos… ▶371PoliticsTime
Lee Kuan YewIf Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one. ✨ From Third World to First, The Singapore Story: 1965-2000. Book by Lee Kuan Yew, 2000.366PoliticsReading
Lee Kuan YewIf you don’t include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society…So what happens? There will be less bright peop… ▶333HopeHumanity
Lee Kuan YewIf it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence against any written law – if that is not what we have always cried out agains… ▶311Politics
Lee Kuan YewI think in Singapore, we stand a chance of making the one-man-one-vote system work. With amendments as we have done, you know, like GRCs.. We need to make it work. And I believe w… ▶324Thought
Lee Kuan YewIf you are a troublemaker, it’s our job to politically destroy you. Put it this way. As long as JB Jeyaretnam stands for what he stands for – a thoroughly destructive force – we w… ▶302PoliticsReadingThought
Lee Kuan YewI 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 en… ▶313HumanityPoliticsThought
Lee Kuan YewI pointed to an article with bold headlines reporting that the police had refused to allow the PAP to hold a rally at Empress Place, and then to the last paragraph where in small … ▶281Philosophy
Lee Kuan YewI make no apologies that the PAP is the Government and the Government is the PAP. ✨ Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Book by Professor Daron Acemoglu, Daron A… ▶3610PoliticsReading
Lee Kuan YewI’m not intellectually convinced that one-man, one-vote is the best. We practise it because that’s what the British bequeathed us282Life
Lee Kuan YewIf there was one formula for our success,it was that we were constantly studying how to make things work,or how to make them work better.304Death
Lee Kuan YewI knew that my niece was working nearby with some bank, so my wife rang up the mother and the mother called back to say that shes just called up to say she was alright.271Reflection
Lee Kuan YewThey say people can think for themselves? Do you honestly believe that the chap who can’t pass primary six knows the consequence of his choice when he answers a question viscerall… ▶294HumanityThoughtTruth
Lee Kuan YewYou’re talking about Rwanda or Bangladesh, or Cambodia, or the Philippines. They’ve got democracy, according to Freedom House. But have you got a civilised life to lead? People wa… ▶294HumanityLife
Lee Kuan YewAnybody 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. 261HumanityReadingThought
Lee Kuan YewIf I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it. ✨ The Straits Times, August 17, 2004.251Time
Lee Kuan YewThere 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 ri… ▶306Reflection
Lee Kuan YewTo 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 … ▶3410PoliticsThought
Lee Kuan YewChina can draw on a talent pool of 1.3 billion people, but the United States can draw on a talent pool of 7 billion and recombine them in a diverse culture that enhances creativit… ▶241HumanityPolitics
Lee Kuan YewIt is not the practice, now will I allow subversives to get away by insisting that I’ve got to prove everything against them in a court of law or [produce] evidence that will stan… ▶3310Politics
Lee Kuan YewPolitical 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 opinio… ▶274PoliticsThought
Lee Kuan YewSupposing Catherine Lim was writing about me and not the prime minister... She would not dare, right? Because my posture, my response has been such that nobody doubts that if you … ▶296HumanityReadingThought
Lee Kuan YewWe 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… ▶297HumanityTime
Lee Kuan YewWhat are our priorities? First, the welfare, the survival of the people. Then, democratic norms and processes which from time to time we have to suspend.3210HumanityTime
Lee Kuan YewOne-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic. ✨ Lee Kuan Yew (2013). The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew, p.46, Editions Didier Millet3110DeathPhilosophyPolitics
Lee Kuan YewNow if democracy will not work for the Russians, a white Christian people, can we assume that it will naturally work with Asians? ✨ American Leaders Swooning Over Singapore&… ▶254HumanityPolitics
Lee Kuan YewIt 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 … ▶254Humanity
Lee Kuan YewIf you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business. ✨ Rage against off-shoring is very real by David Kirkpatrick, ww… ▶232Thought
Lee Kuan YewI can only express the hope that faith in the judicial system will never be diminished, and I am sure it will not, so long as we allow a review of the judicial processes that take… ▶266HopePolitics
Lee Kuan YewI feel sanguine enough to say that there has never been a better set of conditions for open democratic politics because there is no need for unified front politics.277Politics
