23 Lee Kuan Yew Quotes for You to Enjoy

Lee Kuan Yew

Statesman

Born: Sep 16, 1923

Life People Will Work World You

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The ultimate test of the value of a political system is whether it helps that society to establish conditions which improve the standard of living for the majority of its people. Lee Kuan Yew

People Political Value Living Society System Majority Test Ultimate Conditions Improve Political System Establish Whether Which Standard Helps

I'm not guided by what Human Rights Watch says. Lee Kuan Yew

Rights Human Rights Guided Says Human Watch

The difficult part was getting the people to change their habits so that they behaved more like first world citizens, not like third world citizens spitting and littering all over the place. Lee Kuan Yew

Change People World First Difficult Citizens More Habits Spitting Part Over Like First World Behaved Getting Place Third Third World

The exuberance of democracy leads to undisciplined and disorderly conditions which are inimical to development. Lee Kuan Yew

Democracy Exuberance Development Leads Undisciplined Conditions Which Disorderly

I always tried to be correct, not politically correct. Lee Kuan Yew

Correct Tried Always Politically Politically Correct

Of-course we did, but we didn't reply because we knew once this leaks the others will scatter, so in the few days we moved quickly before the press got hold of it. The press did get hold of it a few days later, we nabbed, we were able to get 15, the others got away. Lee Kuan Yew

The values that East Asian culture upholds, such as the primacy of group interests over individual interests, support the total group effort necessary to develop rapidly. Lee Kuan Yew

Culture Values Group East East Asian Rapidly Total Individual Develop Primacy Support Over Effort Asian Interests Group Effort Necessary

If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business. Lee Kuan Yew

You Business Yourself Out Outsourcing Putting Deprive Your Competitors

As an East Asian looking at America, I find attractive and unattractive features. I like, for example, the free, easy and open relations between people regardless of social status, ethnicity or religion. Lee Kuan Yew

Religion People Free Example Looking Relations East East Asian Status Easy Find Unattractive Features Open Between Like For Example Attractive America Regardless Social Asian Ethnicity

From 1945 to 1991, China was engaged in a series of wars that nearly broke them. This generation has been through hell: the Great Leap Forward, hunger, starvation, near collision with the Russians - the Cultural Revolution gone mad. I have no doubt that this generation wants a peaceful rise. Lee Kuan Yew

Great Generation Revolution Gone Doubt Hell Starvation This Generation Hunger Broke Mad Has-Been No Doubt Rise Collision Russians Through Leap Been Cultural Wants China Them Engaged Forward Wars Series Peaceful Near Nearly

China itself is now in the process of sloughing off not only the communist system, but also those outdated parts of Confucianism that prevent the rapid acquisition of knowledge needed to adjust to new ways of life and work. Lee Kuan Yew

Life Work Knowledge Ways Those System Adjust Rapid Outdated Only Prevent New Also Parts Off Itself New Ways Process China Confucianism Acquisition Communist Now Needed

In the East, the main object is to have a well-ordered society so that everybody can have maximum enjoyment of his freedoms. This freedom can only exist in an ordered state and not in a natural state of contention and anarchy. Lee Kuan Yew

Freedom Natural Society Everybody State Anarchy East Object Only Main Freedoms Contention His Exist Maximum Ordered Natural State Enjoyment

My children were educated in what were then Chinese schools, and they learned English as a subject. But they made up when they went to English-language universities. So they didn't lose out. They had a basic set of traditional Confucian values. Not my grandchildren. Lee Kuan Yew

Well if done a lot of hard work to try and get people to act rationally, the fact that weve had 15 deviant Muslims, plus 5 or 8 others that got away does not mean that all Muslims are deviant or extremists. Lee Kuan Yew

All my life... I believed in Malaysian merger and unity of the two territories. You know that we, as a people, are connected by geography, economics, by ties of kinship. Lee Kuan Yew

Life You People My Life Economics Unity All My Life Kinship Merger Know Ties Territories Geography Connected Believed Two

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States and China are more likely to view each other as competitors if not adversaries. But the die has not been cast. The best possible outcome is a new understanding that when they cannot cooperate, they will coexist and allow all countries in the Pacific to grow and thrive. Lee Kuan Yew

Best Will Thrive Understanding Other States Collapse Possible Outcome More Cast Allow Countries New Adversaries Likely Been Die Soviet Soviet Union After Cannot Pacific China View Union Each Grow Cooperate United United States Coexist Competitors

I'm reaching 87, trying to keep fit, presenting a vigorous figure, and it's an effort, and is it worth the effort? I laugh at myself trying to keep a bold front. It's become my habit. I just carry on. Lee Kuan Yew

Myself Worth Become Laugh Carry Habit Reaching Fit Effort Trying Front Just Figure Vigorous Bold Keep Presenting

I support the view that free trade in goods and services is a win-win situation. I'm not so convinced that free flows of capital without restriction is a win-win situation. Lee Kuan Yew

Free Situation Win-Win Win-Win Situation Restriction Free Trade Support Goods Without Trade Capital Convinced View Services Flows

You either use the Internet or you are backward. Lee Kuan Yew

You Internet Backward Either Use

Peace and security both in Europe and in the Pacific still depend on a balance of power. Lee Kuan Yew

Peace Balance Power Depend Security Both Balance Of Power Still Pacific Europe

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