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„Меня часто обвиняют в том, что я вмешиваюсь в частную жизнь граждан. Да если бы я не делал этого, мы бы не добились того, чего мы смогли добиться на сегодняшний день. И я говорю без намека на сожаление, что мы не добились бы такого экономического прогресса, если бы я не вмешивался в личные дела. Кто ваш сосед, как вы живете, почему вы шумите, как вы плюете и на каком языке вы говорите - мы решаем, что правильно. Неважно, что думают люди.“

„Даже находясь на смертном одре, даже если вы попробуете загнать меня в могилу и я почувствую, что что-то идет не так, я встану. Те, кто считают, что после того как я покинул правительство в качестве премьер-министра, я выйду на пенсию до конца жизни, должны провериться у врача.“

„Я никогда не понимал, почему западные педагоги так решительно выступают против телесных наказаний. Ни мне, ни моим одноклассникам они вреда не нанесли.“

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„Я не верю в любовь с первого взгляда. Я считаю это большой ошибкой. Тебя влекут физические характеристики, а потом ты сожалеешь об этом.“

„Хотите побороть коррупцию?> Начните с того, что посадите трёх своих друзей. Вы точно знаете за что, и они знают за что.“

„Скажу прямо: если бы мы не последовали хорошим примерам на Западе, мы бы не преодолели свою отсталость — как экономическую, так и социальную. Но целиком копировать Запад мы не станем.“

приписывается Источник: Forbes.kz, Борейко В., Как рыбацкая деревушка стала экономическим драконом, 2013-04-06 http://forbes.kz/travels/kak_ryibatskaya_derevnya_stala_ekonomicheskim_drakonom_1,

„Начните с того, что посадите трёх своих друзей. Вы точно знаете за что, и они знают за что.“

„В отличие от коммунистической системы, русские - не те люди, которых можно выбросить на свалку истории.“

„Михаилу Горбачеву следовало насторожиться, когда средства массовой информации враждебных государств стали хвалить его, вместо этого он следовал их увещеваниям и вызвал распад страны… так как ЦРУ могло только мечтать.“

„Если бы я не был премьер-министром, он мог бы стать премьер-министром на несколько лет раньше. Не в моих интересах допускать на важные посты неспособных членов моей семьи, потому что это будет катастрофой для Сингапура и для моего наследия. Этого позволять нельзя.“

„Вы знаете сингапурцев. Это трудолюбивые, энергичные, твердые люди. Иначе мы не сдали бы экзамен. Но давайте также признаем, что сингапурцы великие ворчуны.“

„Если ты поверил в демократию, твоя вера должна быть безусловной. Если ты веришь, что человек должен быть свободным, то предоставь ему свободу собраний, свободу слова, свободу публикаций.“

„Американцы великие миссионеры. У них неудержимое стремление обращать всех в свою веру.“

„Мы прагматики. Пробуем и, если получается, продолжаем. Не получается — отбрасываем этот подход и пробуем другой. Мы не привязаны ни к одной идеологии.“

„Необходимо интересно представить ваше дело, тогда люди будут вас слушать.“

„Почивать на лаврах? Хотелось бы, но не могу. Нет, почивать будем, когда умрем.“

„Я всегда старался говорить правду, а не следить за политической корректностью.“

„Даже со своей больничной койки, даже если вы опустите меня в могилу, и я почувствую, что что-то не так, я встану.“

„Сидеть на скамье удобнее и безопаснее, чем на складном стульчике, не так ли? Сейчас мы сидим на складном стульчике, и я твердо намерен усидеть на нем. Ведь если 214 квадратных миль – это все, чем мы располагаем, то в наших силах сделать этот стульчик надежным и прочным. Вы видели Сингапур и его жителей? Наш стульчик выкован из стали.“

„Я всегда старался быть корректным, но не политкорректным.“

„Если Сингапур – это государство-нянька, то я горжусь тем, что воспитал его таким.“

„Я побывал (в Бирме) и знаю, что есть только один инструмент правительства, и это армия ... Если бы я был Аунг Сан Су Чжи, я бы предпочел быть за забором и быть символом, чем после двух или три года, быть найденным бессильным.“

Этот перевод ждет рассмотрения. Правильный ли перевод?

„Мы использовали те преимущества, которые Великобритания оставила нам: английский язык, юридическую систему, администрацию, лишённую партийных пристрастий. Мы тщательно избегали использования методов, свойственных социальному государству, потому что видели, как великий британский народ в результате социалистической уравниловки превратился в посредственный.“

“I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind - an inability to chart a course whichever way the wind blows, whichever way the media encourages the people to go, you follow. If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.”

Источник: А. Пикуленко. БОЛЬШОЕ ОКНО СИНГАПУРА http://www.timetolive.ru/p/42010/oknosingapura/ // Время жить вместе. — 2010. — апрель.

Ли Куан Ю: Цитаты на английском языке

“Let us not deceive ourselves: our talent profile is nowhere near that of, say, the Jews or the Japanese in America. The exceptional number of Nobel Prize winners who are Jews is no accident. It is also no accident that a high percentage, sometimes 50%, of faculty members in the top American universities on both the east and west coasts are Jews. And the number of high calibre Japanese academics, professionals, and business executives is out of all proportion to the percentage of Japanese in the total American population”

SM Lee Kuan Yew, Success Stories, 2002
2000s

“Mah Bow Tan, age 16, took his 'O' levels - six distinctions, two credits. Mr Chiam, age 18 - 1953 I think - six credits, one pass. He passed his English language, not bad. The next year, in 1954, he worked harder, he got a credit for his English. So you see, it's not because he doesn't know English that he found difficult in expressing himself. It's what's inside here *tapping his head*. And you better search your inside here before you cast your votes. Goodbye and good luck.”

The Search for Talent, 12 August 1982 http://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/speeches/record-details/73eb9163-115d-11e3-83d5-0050568939ad 1980s

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

Speech at Fullerton Square dissing Chiam See tong, 19 December 1984 http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19841220-1.2.32.5.aspx 1980s

“If we say that we believe in democracy, if we say that the fabric of a democratic society is one which allows for the free play of idea…then, in the name of all the gods, give that free play a chance to work within the constitutional framework.”

(quoted in Milne and Mauzy 1990, p. 85) http://books.google.com/books?id=gzdbfu55IGgC&pg=PA10&lpg=PA10&dq=I+make+no+apologies+that+the+PAP+is+the+Government+and+the+Government+is+the&source=bl&ots=S0zsvGrdSE&sig=BdKP_Lx7rh0f0xG6Y0dmn8TgGWc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lNjuUqqGD8PlsATSi4DACw&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=I%20make%20no%20apologies%20that%20the%20PAP%20is%20the%20Government%20and%20the%20Government%20is%20the&f=false 1980s

“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”

Opposition leader Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore Legislative Assembly, Oct 4, 1956
1950s

“According to history, Malays began to migrate to Malaysia in noticeable numbers only about 700 years ago. Of the 39 percent Malays in Malaysia today, about one-third are comparatively new immigrants like the secretary-general of UMNO, Dato' Syed Ja'afar Albar, who came to Malaya from Indonesia just before the war at the age of more than thirty. Therefore it is wrong and illogical for a particular racial group to think that they are more justified to be called Malaysians and that the others can become Malaysian only through their favour.”

On accepting foreign talent (Straits Times, 22 April 2007)
2000s

“What people mean by consultation is an imitation of what they see in America; pressure groups and lobby groups.. It's an unthinking adoption of Western practices of development without any pruning and modification to suit our circumstances.”

Lee Kuan Yew (in 1964 or 1965), — Ye, Lin-Sheng (2003). The Chinese Dilemma, p. 43. East West Publishing. ISBN 0-9751646-1-9.
1960s

“Supposing Catherine Lim was writing about me and not the prime minister…She would not dare, right? Because my posture, my response has been such that nobody doubts that if you take me on, I will put on knuckle-dusters and catch you in a cul de sac…Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no other way you can govern a Chinese society.”

Lee Kuan Yew, The Man & His Ideas, 1997
1990s

“Repression can only go up to a point. When it becomes too acute, the instruments of repression, namely the army and the police, have been proved time and time again in history to have turned their guns on their masters.”

SM Lee Kuan Yew, The Man and His Ideas, 1997 http://books.google.com/books?id=ljOkLtGgIQYC&dq=Supposing+Catherine+Lim+was+writing+about+me+and+not+the+prime+minister..&source=gbs_navlinks_s 1990s

“I have to speak candidly to be of value, but I do not want to offend the Muslim community… I think we were progressing very nicely until the surge of Islam came, and if you asked me for my observations, the other communities have easier integration – friends, inter-marriages and so on – than Muslims… I would say, today, we can integrate all religions and races, except Islam.”

Opposition leader Lee Kuan Yew, Straits Times, May 5, 1959
1950s

“Of course there are Chinese millionaires in big cars and big houses. Is it the answer to make a few Malay millionaires with big cars and big houses? How does telling a Malay bus driver that he should support the party of his Malay director (UMNO) and the Chinese bus conductor to join another party of his Chinese director (MCA) - how does that improve the standards of the Malay bus driver and the Chinese bus conductor who are both workers in the same company? If we delude people into believing that they are poor because there are no Malay rights or because opposition members oppose Malay rights, where are we going to end up? You let people in the kampongs believe that they are poor because we don't speak Malay, because the government does not write in Malay, so he expects a miracle to take place in 1967 (the year Malay would become the national and sole official language in Malaysia). The moment we all start speaking Malay, he is going to have an uplift in the standard of living, and if doesn't happen, what happens then? Meanwhile, whenever there is a failure of economic, social and educational policies, you come back and say, oh, these wicked Chinese, Indian and others opposing Malay rights. They don't oppose Malay rights. They, the Malay, have the right as Malaysian citizens to go up to the level of training and education that the more competitive societies, the non-Malay society, has produced. That is what must be done, isn't it? Not to feed them with this obscurantist doctrine that all they have got to do is to get Malay rights for the few special Malays and their problem has been resolved.”

from his book 'Lee Kuan Yew: Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going' (Asia One, March 08 2011 http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne+News/Singapore/Story/A1Story20110308-267055.html) 2010s

“One of the crucial yardsticks by which we shall have to judge the results of the new abortion law combined with the voluntary sterilisation law will be whether it tends to raise or lower the total quality of our population. We must encourage those who earn less than $200 per month and cannot afford to nurture and educate many children never to have more than two. Intelligent application of these laws can help reduce the distortion that has already set in. Until the less educated themselves are convinced and realise that they should concentrate their limited resources on one or two to give their children the maximum chance to climb up the educational ladder, their children will always be at the bottom of the economic scale. It is unlikely that the results will be discernible before five years. Nor will the effect be felt before fifteen to twenty years. But we will regret the time lost if we do not now take the first tentative steps towards correcting a trend which can leave our society with a large number of the physically, intellectually and culturally anaemic.”

Lee Kuan Yew in the Parliament of Malaysia, 1965 http://maddruid.com/?p=645 1960s

“If Aljunied decides to go that way, well Aljunied has five years to live and repent.”

Abortion Bill (As reported from Select Committee), 29 Dec 1969. Singapore Parliament Reports http://sprs.parl.gov.sg/search/topic.jsp?currentTopicID=00054060-ZZ&currentPubID=00069213-ZZ&topicKey=00069213-ZZ.00054060-ZZ_1%2Bid015_19691229_S0003_T00031-bill%2B 1960s

“If, for instance, you put in a Malay officer who's very religious and who has family ties in Malaysia in charge of a machine gun unit, that's a very tricky business. We've got to know his background… I'm saying these things because they are real, and if I don't think that, and I think even if today the Prime Minister doesn't think carefully about this, we could have a tragedy.”

warning voters in Aljunied GRC on the consequence of voting for the alternative Workers' Party, which the PAP eventually lost to. (Yahoo News, April 30, 2011, http://sg.news.yahoo.com/aljunied-voters-will-regret-choosing-wp--mm-lee.html) 2010s

“The Bell curve is a fact of life. The blacks on average score 85 per cent on IQ and it is accurate, nothing to do with culture. The whites score on average 100. Asians score more … the Bell curve authors put it at least 10 points higher. These are realities that, if you do not accept, will lead to frustration because you will be spending money on wrong assumptions and the results cannot follow.”

SM Lee Kuan Yew, Straits Times, September 19, 1999 on Malays in the Singapore Armed Forces
1990s

“Supposing I'm now 21, 22, what would I do? I would not be absorbed in wanting to change life in Singapore. I'm not responsible for Singapore…Why should I go and undertake this job and spend my whole life pushing this for a lot of people for whom nothing is good enough? I will have a fall-back position, which many are doing - have a house in Perth or Vancouver or Sydney, or an apartment in London, in case I need some place suddenly, and think about whether I go on to America.”

Lee Kuan Yew, The Man & His Ideas, 1997
1990s

“I have never been over concerned or obsessed with opinion polls or popularity polls. I think a leader who is, is a weak leader. Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless.”

SM Lee Kuan Yew, The Man & His Ideas, 1997
1990s

“If you don't include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society… So what happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb people in the next generation. That's a problem.”

The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew, 1998, as quoted by http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-05-24/tech/30081331_1_singaporean-lee-kuan-yew-political-landscape 1990s

“When I call a man openly, you're a liar, you're dishonest, and you do not dare to sue me, there's something basically wrong. And I will repeat it anywhere and you can't go and say, oh, I have apologised; let's move on. Can you commit a dishonourable -- maybe even one which is against the law -- an illegal act and say, let's move on because I've apologised? You may move on but you're going to move on out of politics in time.”

National Day Rally, 1983. Cited in The Coming Population Crash: And Our Planet's Surprising Future, Fred Pearce
1980s

“Let me give you an example that encapsulates the whole difference between America and Singapore. America has a vicious drug problem. How does it solve it? It goes around the world helping other anti-narcotic agencies to try and stop the suppliers… Singapore does not have that option. What we can do is to pass a law which says that any customs officer or policeman who sees anybody in Singapore behaving suspiciously… can require that man to have his urine tested. If the sample is found to contain drugs, the man immediately goes for treatment. In America if you did that it would be an invasion of the individual's rights and you would be sued.”

MM Lee Kuan Yew on James Gomez, Channelnewsasia, May 2006
2000s

“You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you'll never put Singapore together again: Humpty Dumpty cannot be put together again… my asset values will disappear, my apartments will be worth a fraction of what they were, my ministers' jobs will be in peril, their security will be at risk and their women will become maids in other people's countries, foreign workers. I cannot have that!”

Lee Kuan Yew, Interview with Fareed Zakaria of Foreign Policy, 1994 https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/asia/1994-03-01/conversation-lee-kuan-yew 1990s

“Malays abhor the state of celibacy. To remain unmarried was and is considered shameful. Everyone must be married at some time or other. The result”

Justifying million-dollar pay hike for Singapore ministers (Straits Times, 5 April 2007)
2000s

“It is necessary to try and put some safeguards into the way in which people use their votes to bargain, to coerce, to push, to jostle and get what they want without running the risk of losing the services of the government, because one day, by mistake, they will lose the services of the government… You unscramble Singapore, well, you'll never put Humpty Dumpty together again”

1980s

“They (the Malay extremists) have triggered off something basic and fundamental. Malaysia — to whom does it belong? To Malaysians. But who are Malaysians? I hope I am, Mr Speaker, Sir. But sometimes, sitting in this chamber, I doubt whether I am allowed to be a Malaysian. This is the doubt that hangs over many minds, and the next contest, if this goes on, will be on very different lines.”

On tweaking the one-man one-vote system after losing 2 seats to non-PAP Candidates, The Straits Times, 24 December 1984 http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article.aspx?articleid=straitstimes19841224-1.2.2 1980s

“There is a conspiracy to do us in. Why?… They see us as a threat to the rest of Singapore.”

Lee Kuan Yew in the Parliament of Malaysia, 1965 http://www.jeffooi.com/archives/2005/11/i_went_into_act.php 1960s

“Three women were brought to the Singapore General Hospital, each in the same condition and needing a blood transfusion. The first, a Southeast Asian was given the transfusion but died a few hours later. The second, a South Asian was also given a transfusion but died a few days later. The third, an East Asian, was given a transfusion and survived. That is the X factor in development.”

on why Human Rights Groups criticise Singapore's governance (Agence France-Presse, July 12 2008, http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=124971) 2000s

“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.”

1967, cited in Lee Kuan Yew: race, culture and genes, Michael Barr in Journal of Contemporary Asia (01/1999)
1960s

“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. And I say without the slightest remorse, that we wouldn't be here, we would not have made economic progress, if we had not intervened on very personal matters - who your neighbour is, how you live, the noise you make, how you spit, or what language you use. We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.”

1988 National Day Rally, when he discussed the leadership transition to Goh Chok Tong in 1990. As quoted in The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia: Volume 2, The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
1980s

“Mine is a very matter-of-fact approach to the problem. If you can select a population and they're educated and they're properly brought up, then you don't have to use too much of the stick because they would already have been trained. It's like with dogs. You train it in a proper way from small. It will know that it's got to leave, go outside to pee and to defecate. No, we are not that kind of society. We had to train adult dogs who even today deliberately urinate in the lifts.”

Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, Straits Times, 20 April 1987
1980s