Quotes by Pol Pot

Pol Pot

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

Enemy

Innocent

Mistake

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

Look At Me

Looks

Savages

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

Mass

People

Pot

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.

Country

Government

Hatred

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.

Baby

Mistake

Sorry

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

Corpses

Enemy

Protest

Hunger is the most effective disease.

Disease

Hunger

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

People

Struggle

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.

Looks

People

Revolution

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.

Gun

People

Savages

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Baby

Cambodia

Corpses

Country

Dies

Disease

Dose

Enemy

Evil

Firsts

Gains

Government

Grass

Grows

Gun

Hands

Hatred

Hunger

Hungry

Hurt

Ifs

Imagination

Innocent

Judging

Land

Leader

Look At Me

Looks

Loss

Mass

Medication

Mistake

People

Pieces

Pot

Protest

Regret

Remains

Remove

Responsibility

Revolution

Roots

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Savages

Sick

Sorry

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Quotes by Pol Pot

Pol Pot

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.

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.

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