Rest on laurels? I wish I could do that. No, you rest when you're dead Lee Kuan Yew More Quotes by Lee Kuan Yew More Quotes From Lee Kuan Yew Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life should be. Lee Kuan Yew believe people thinking I am not given to making sense out of life - or coming up with some grand narrative on it - other than to measure it by what you think you want to do in life. As for me, I have done what I had wanted to, to the best of my ability. I am satisfied. Lee Kuan Yew done want thinking The Bell curve is a fact of life. The blacks on average score 85 per cent on IQ and it is accurate, nothing to do with culture. The whites score on average 100. Asians score more. The Bell curve authors put it at least 10 points higher. These are realities that, if you do not accept, will lead to frustration because you will be spending money on wrong assumptions and the results cannot follow. Lee Kuan Yew frustration average reality If you can't think because you can't chew, try a banana. Lee Kuan Yew bananas trying thinking Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this. Lee Kuan Yew assuming government people I'm not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honourable purpose. Lee Kuan Yew purpose If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader. Lee Kuan Yew leader inspiring people Nine holes of golf will take you one-and-a-half, two hours. I run in 20 minutes, I feel better off. So the cost benefit made me drop golf. Lee Kuan Yew feel-better golf running They say people can think for themselves? Do you honestly believe that the chap who can’t pass primary six knows the consequence of his choice when he answers a question viscerally, on language, culture and religion? But we knew the consequences. We would starve, we would have race riots. We would disintegrate. Lee Kuan Yew race believe thinking The human being needs a challenge, and my advice to every person in Singapore and elsewhere: Keep yourself interested, have a challenge. Lee Kuan Yew challenges advice needs One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic. Lee Kuan Yew erratic inspiring men I have never been over concerned or obsessed with opinion polls or popularity polls. I think a leader who is, is a weak leader. Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I'm meaningless. Lee Kuan Yew leader wind thinking But we either believe in democracy or we don't. If we do, then, we must say categorically, without qualification, that no restraint from the any democratic processes, other than by the ordinary law of the land, should be allowed. If you believe in democracy, you must believe in it unconditionally. If you believe that men should be free, then, they should have the right of free association, of free speech, of free publication. Then, no law should permit those democratic processes to be set at nought. Lee Kuan Yew law men believe I have decided that we shall make and build and never give way. Lee Kuan Yew decided giving way I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course. Lee Kuan Yew leader inspiring men Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards. Lee Kuan Yew iron games inspiring The human being is an unequal creature. That is a fact. And we start off with the proposition. All the great religions, all the great movements, all the great political ideology, say let us make the human being as equal as possible. In fact, he is not equal, never will be. Lee Kuan Yew movement political facts 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. Lee Kuan Yew government inspiring integrity What are our priorities? First, the welfare, the survival of the people. Then, democratic norms and processes which from time to time we have to suspend. Lee Kuan Yew priorities survival people If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it. Lee Kuan Yew disorder students years
