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

Pol Pot

#People Quotes #Looks Quotes #Revolution Quotes

“I think that's still the most primal fear of all humans: to be eaten.”
“The pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in searching for it.”
“I want no part of peace with savages who throw acid on and gun down young girls going to school. I would prefer to crush them and kill them wherever they exist. Thatâ€™s not being a warmonger. Itâ€™s being a realist.”
“The collisions happen 40 yards down the field, so if you take off from 5 yards or 10, it does not even matter. Do I make sense? I mean, come on.”
“Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.”
“As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.”
“The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.”

Source : Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.78, Soft Skull Press
“If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.”

Source : Donald Hall (1994). “Death to the death of poetry: essays, reviews, notes, interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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