Lee Kuan Yew Quotes About Inspiring
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I don't believe in love at first sight. I think it's a grave mistake.
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If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.
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I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.
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What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.
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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.
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I have been accused of many things in my life, but not even my worst enemy has ever accused me of being afraid to speak my mind.
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I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be here today.
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Singaporeans, if I can chose an analogy, we are the hard disk of a computer, the foreign talent are the megabytes you add to your storage capacity. So your computer never hangs because you got enormous storage capacity.
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One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic.
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I always tried to be correct, not politically correct.
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I make no apologies that the PAP is the Government and the Government is the PAP.
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If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.
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Freedom of the press, freedom of the news media, must be subordinated to the overriding needs of the integrity of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.
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Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards.
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If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one.
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I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time questioning whether they are able to do a better job than we can.
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Every person, genius or moron, has a right to reproduce himself.
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I wish I can meet my wife in the hereafter, but I don't think I will. I just cease to exist just as she has ceased to exist.
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Lee Kuan Yew
- Born: September 16, 1923
- Died: March 23, 2015
- Occupation: Singaporean Politician
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