"I always tried to be correct, not politically correct."

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Source : Lee Kuan Yew (2013). “The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew”, p.159, Editions Didier Millet

Lee Kuan Yew

#Politically Correct Quotes

“Faith is not only a commitment to the promises of Christ; faith is also a commitment to the demands of Christ.”
“But it's true, kingdoms and crowns, a God who came down to find you. It's true, angels on high sing through the night, Alleluia.”

Source : Song: It's True, Album: O Holy Night, 2008
“A bird in a cage is not half a bird.”
“Not all lines, not all images, survive their season.”
“I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be done and I do take liberties I wouldn't have taken before.”

Source : "I work in waves". Interview with Nicholas Serota, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2008.
“People are either good or they're not. Religion doesn't make anybody good, I don't think.”
“I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.”
“At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise . . . that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.”

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