To kill the grass you must also remove the root Pol Pot More Quotes by Pol Pot More Quotes From Pol Pot Better to kill an innocent by mistake than spare an enemy by mistake. Pol Pot innocentmistakeenemy He who protests is an enemy; he who opposes is a corpse. Pol Pot corpsesprotestenemy I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear. Pol Pot savagesgunpeople Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies. Pol Pot gainsuseloss We will burn the old grass and the new will grow. Pol Pot growsgrasspot If you have a disease of the old society, take a dose of Lenin as medication. Pol Pot dosemedicationdisease Exterminate the 50 million Vietnamese and purify the masses of the [Cambodian] people. Pol Pot masspotpeople I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country. Pol Pot leaderevilcountry Hunger is the most effective disease. Pol Pot hungerdisease Whoever wishes to blame or attack me is entitled to do so. I regret I didn't have enough experience to totally control the movement. On the other hand, with our constant struggle, this had to be done together with others in the communist world to stop Kampuchea becoming Vietnamese. Pol Pot regretstrugglehands When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that. Pol Pot stresswishwant No gain in keeping, no loss in weeding out. Pol Pot gainsweedloss There's what we did wrong and what we did right. The mistake is that we did some things against the people - by us and also by the enemy - but the other side, as I told you, is that without our struggle there would be no Cambodia right now. Pol Pot strugglemistakepeople For the other people, the babies, the young ones, I did not order them to be killed. For Son Sen and his family, yes. I feel sorry for that. That was a mistake that occurred when we put our plan into practice. I feel sorry. Pol Pot sorrymistakebaby In Khmer we have a saying that when one is both quite sick and old there remains only one thing, that you die. Pol Pot remainsdiessick We want only peace, to build up our country. World opinion is paying great attention to the threat against Democratic Kampuchea. They are anxious, they fear Kampuchea cannot oppose the Vietnamese. This could hurt the interests of the Southeast Asian countries and all of the world's countries. Pol Pot asianhurtcountry If you wish to live exactly as you please, the Angkar will put aside a small piece of land for you. Pol Pot pieceslandwish 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. Pol Pot revolutionpeoplelooks Even now, and you can look at me, am I a savage person? My conscience is clear. Pol Pot look-at-mesavageslooks Failing to induce adulation and submissiveness, the Angkar could only generate hatred. If concealment was the ultimate ploy for the leadership, it backfired and whipped up abhorrence in the Pol Pot governmenthatredcountry
