“If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.” – Lee Kuan Yew endorsing the Tiananmen massacre, Straits Times, 17 August 2004
“If you are a troublemaker… it’s our job to politically destroy you. Put it this way. As long as JB Jeyaratnam for what he stands for – a thoroughly destructive force – we will knock him. Everybody knows that in my bag I have a hatchet, and a very sharp one. You take me on, I take my hatchet, we meet in the cul-de-sac.” – Lee Kuan Yew, The Man And His Ideas, 1997
“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. And I say without the slightest remorse, that we wouldn’t be here, we would not have made economic progress, if we had not intervened on very personal matters – who your neighbour is, how you live, the noise you make, how you spit, or what language you use. We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.” – Lee Kuan Yew, Straits Times, 20 April 1987
“I make no apologies that the PAP is the Government and the Government is the PAP.” – Lee Kuan Yew, 1982, Petir
“If I were in authority in Singapore indefinitely without having to ask those who are governed whether they like what is being done, then I would not have the slightest doubt that I could govern much more effectively in their interests.” – Lee Kuan Yew, 1962
“Repression, Sir is a habit that grows. I am told it is like making love – it is always easier the second time! The first time there may be pangs of conscience, a sense of guilt. But once embarked on this course with constant repetition you get more and more brazen in the attack. All you have to do is to dissolve organizations and societies and banish and detain the key political workers in these societies. Then miraculously everything is tranquil on the surface. Then an intimidated press and the government-controlled radio together can regularly sing your praises, and slowly and steadily the people are made to forget the evil things that have already been done, or if these things are referred to again they’re conveniently distorted and distorted with impunity, because there will be no opposition to contradict.” – Lee Kuan Yew as an opposition PAP member speaking to David Marshall, Singapore Legislative Assembly, Debates, 4 October 1956
“I pointed to an article with bold headlines reporting that the police had refused to allow the PAP to hold a rally at Empress Place, and then to the last paragraph where in small type it added the meeting would take place where we were now. I compared this with a prominent report about an SPA rally. This was flagrant bias.” – Lee Kuan Yew complaining about the Straits Times in 1959.
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please remove the music from this page.
You can take over the world but you’ll still not be spared the company of fools. When YOU are able to fight your way through a political circus surrounded with allies who want to kill you, neighbours who want to starve you, and a plethora of differing races and religions of fishing village intelligence on an insignificant, resourceless dot that just had it’s ass handed to it in a war, and build it until it’s GDP is on par with the first world nations within the span of 40 years, then maybe you’ll actually be qualified to determine what ideas are mind boggling or not. Until then, the only thing mindboggling about your post is how breathtakingly inaccurate your world view is.
LKY, was that you as Anonymous of 12/07/2007 04:54:00 PM? How typically fascist.
You know, the depressing background music doesn’t help, lol.
I rotate the music from time to time. You just happen to hear the depressing one.
Singapore was a fairly strong economy under the British before LKY took it over. Just look at the building the British had built there before WWII. It was hardly just a fishing village as Mr. Lee would like us to believe, nonetheless he and his fellow dictators did make the economy stronger, but do the ends justify the means.. ie … total corruption of the British Parliamentary system?
RB in Canada, who has been to Singapore many times.
Singapore is just a stage for LKY to climb up the ladder to satisfy his ego and fill his greed hunger. The citizens are his pawn.
he's no longer around now..