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“For reasons of sentiment, I would like part of my ashes to be mixed up with Mama's, and both her ashes and mine put side by side in the columbarium. We were joined in life and I would like our ashes to be joined after this life.”
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Ashes #Mama #Sides
“I have no regrets.I have spent my life,so much of it, building up this country. There's nothing more that I need to do. At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life.”
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Country #Regret #Successful
“If you want to reach your goals and dreams, you cannot do it without discipline”
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Dream #Discipline #Goal
“Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people donâ€™t understand this”
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Government #People #Assuming
“You begin your journey not knowing where it will take you. You have plans, you have dreams, but every now and again you have to take uncharted roads, face impassable mountains, cross treacherous rivers, be blocked by landslides and earthquakes. That's the way my life has been.”
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Dream #Journey #Earthquakes
“Three women were brought to the Singapore General Hospital, each in the same condition and needing a blood transfusion. The first, a Southeast Asian was given the transfusion but died a few hours later. The second, a South Asian was also given a transfusion but died a few days later. The third, an East Asian, was given a transfusion and survived. That is the X factor in development.”
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Blood #Asian #East
“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

#Inspiring #People #Leader
“They say people can think for themselves? Do you honestly believe that the chap who canâ€™t pass primary six knows the consequence of his choice when he answers a question viscerally, on language, culture and religion? But we knew the consequences. We would starve, we would have race riots. We would disintegrate.”
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Believe #Thinking #Race
“If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.”
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Years #Students #Disorder
“I am not given to making sense out of life - or coming up with some grand narrative on it - other than to measure it by what you think you want to do in life. As for me, I have done what I had wanted to, to the best of my ability. I am satisfied.”
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Thinking #Done #Want
“There is nothing to prevent you from pushing your propaganda, to push your programme out to the students or with the public at largeâ€¦and if you can carry the ground, if you are right, you win. Thatâ€™s democracy.”
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Winning #Democracy #Pushing
“My colleagues and I are of that generation of young men who went through the Second World War and the Japanese Occupation and emerged determined that no oneâ€“neither Japanese nor Britishâ€“had the right to push and kick us around.Â We determined that we could govern ourselves and bring up our children in a country where we can be proud to be self-respecting people.”
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Country #Children #War
“It 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 short, the elite.. Every society tries to produce this type. The British have special schools for them: the gifted and talented are sent to Eton and Harrow.”
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Inspiration #School #People
“Life is not just eating, drinking, television and cinema...The human mind must be creative, must be self-generating ; it cannot depend on just gadgets to amuse itself.”
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Drinking #Self #Creative
“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

#Christian #White #People
“The human being is an unequal creature. That is a fact. And we start off with the proposition. All the great religions, all the great movements, all the great political ideology, say let us make the human being as equal as possible. In fact, he is not equal, never will be.”
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Political #Movement #Facts
“We must encourage those who earn less than $200 per month and cannot afford to nurture and educate many children never to have more than twoâ€¦ We will regret the time lost if we do not now take the first tentative steps towards correcting a trend which can leave our society with a large number of the physically, intellectually and culturally anaemic.”
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Children #Regret #Two
“If you donâ€™t include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid societyâ€¦So what happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb people in the next generation. Thatâ€™s a problem.”
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Stupid #People #Support
“Any time, every time, you can damn the Prime Minister and so long as it is not a lie and a criminal lie, nothing happens to you.Â You can say a lot of things.Â You can write books about him, damning him.Â So long as it is not a libel, go ahead.”
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Lying #Book #Writing
“I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been. . .by observation, reading, watching, arguing, asking, and then bullying my way to the top, that is the conclusion I've come to.”
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Bullying #Believe #Reading
“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

#Army #Years #Two
“At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life.”
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Successful #The End Of The Day #Ends
“With few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to new developing countriesâ€¦What Asians value may not necessarily be what Americans or Europeans value. Westerners value the freedoms and liberties of the individual. As an Asian of Chinese cultural backround, my values are for a government which is honest, effective and efficient.”
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Country #Government #Chinese
“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

#Sick #Bed #Graves
“The task of the leaders must be to provide or create for them a strong framework within which they can learn, work hard, be productive and be rewarded accordingly. And this is not easy to achieve.”
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Strong #Hard Work #Leader
“Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life should be,”
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Believe #Thinking #People
“Nine holes of golf will take you one-and-a-half, two hours. I run in 20 minutes, I feel better off. So the cost benefit made me drop golf.”
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Running #Feel Better #Golf
“Even from my sickbed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel that something is going wrong, I will get up. Those who believe that after I have left the government as prime minister, I will go into a permanent retirement really should have their heads examined.”
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Retirement #Believe #Government
“If you can't think because you can't chew, try a banana.”
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Thinking #Trying #Bananas
“Rest on laurels? I wish I could do that. No, you rest when you're dead”
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Wish #Laurels

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