Best 27 quotes of Pol Pot on MyQuotes

Better to kill an innocent by mistake than spare an enemy by mistake.

Even now, and you can look at me, am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.

Exterminate the 50 million Vietnamese and purify the masses of the [Cambodian] people.

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 context of total revolution. This might be one of the explanations why repression assumed proportions unknown in other Communist countries. The mask of Angkar was a good tactic to grab power, but it proved disastrous in government.

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.

He who protests is an enemy; he who opposes is a corpse.

Hunger is the most effective disease.

I came to carry out the struggle, not to kill people.

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.

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.

I do not reject responsibility - our movement made mistakes, like every other movement in the world. But there was another aspect that was outside our control - the enemy's activities against us.

If you have a disease of the old society, take a dose of Lenin as medication.

If you wish to live exactly as you please, the Angkar will put aside a small piece of land for you.

I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader.

I'm quite satisfied on one thing: If we had not carried out our struggle, Cambodia would have become another Kampuchea Krom in 1975.

I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country.

No gain in keeping, no loss in weeding out.

Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.

The first time I heard of Tuol Sleng, it was on the Voice of America. I listened twice.

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.

The sick are victims of their own imagination.

The Vietnamese... wanted to assassinate me because they knew without me they could easily swallow up Cambodia.

To kill the grass you must also remove the root

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.

We will burn the old grass and the new will grow.

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.

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.