Lee Kuan Yew Quotes about Inspiring

What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.

If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.

I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.

I always tried to be correct, not politically correct.

I have been accused of many things in my life, but not even my worst enemy has ever accused me of being afraid to speak my mind.

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.

Every person, genius or moron, has a right to reproduce himself.

One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic.

Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will get up.

I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time questioning whether they are able to do a better job than we can.

Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards.

I don't believe in love at first sight. I think it's a grave mistake.

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.

If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.

If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one.

I wish I can meet my wife in the hereafter, but I don't think I will. I just cease to exist just as she has ceased to exist.

I make no apologies that the PAP is the Government and the Government is the PAP.

Singaporeans, if I can chose an analogy, we are the hard disk of a computer, the foreign talent are the megabytes you add to your storage capacity. So your computer never hangs because you got enormous storage capacity.