Pol Pot
Cambodian dictator, Khmer Rouge
Sayings by Pol Pot
We must be vigilant against all traitors.
The victory of the revolution is inevitable.
We have no enemies, only friends and enemies of the revolution.
The past is dead, the future is ours.
We must be absolutely self-reliant.
The revolution is just beginning.
We will never surrender.
The new society will be a paradise.
If the people live, the nation lives. If the people die, the nation dies.
We must purify the people.
The only way to build socialism is to destroy the old society.
We must start from Year Zero.
The city is the enemy.
Intellectuals are like parasites.
The people must work harder.
The Angkar is the mother and father of all Cambodians.
We will build a new, clean, and pure society.
The new people are rotten to the core.
We have purified the country.
Only the pure remain.