Peace and security both in Europe and in the Pacific still depend on a balance of power. Lee Kuan Yew Read Quote
The original communitarianism of Chinese Confucian society has degenerated into nepotism, a system of family linkages, and corruption, on the mainland. And remnants of the evils of the original system are still found in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and even Singapore. Lee Kuan Yew Read Quote
We are pragmatists. We don’t stick to any ideology. Does it work? Let’s try it, and if it does work, fine, let’s continue it. If it doesn’t work, toss it out, try another one. We are not enamored with any ideology. Lee Kuan Yew Read Quote
The acid test of any legal system is not the greatness or the grandeur of its ideal concepts, but whether, in fact, it is able to produce order and justice. Lee Kuan Yew Read Quote
I have always thought that humanity was animal-like. The Confucian theory was man could be improved, but I’m not sure he can be. He can be trained; he can be disciplined. Lee Kuan Yew Read Quote
All my life… I believed in Malaysian merger and unity of the two territories. You know that we, as a people, are connected by geography, economics, by ties of kinship. Lee Kuan Yew Read Quote
The exuberance of democracy leads to undisciplined and disorderly conditions which are inimical to development. Lee Kuan Yew Read Quote
