Pol Pot Quotes

“For if there is one lesson worth retaining from the travails of the Cold War and the miseries it brought in its wake, it is the folly of seeking simple answers to complicated questions. It is a lesson which governments still show no sign of learning.”
― Philip Short, Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare

“When we contemplate what happened in Cambodia, we are looking not at some exotic horror story but into darkness, into the foul places of our own souls.”
― Philip Short, Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare

“having a line of coloured sand drawn around Phnom Penh to give the city magical protection.”
― Philip Short, Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare

“his youngest child, a four-year-old girl whom he adored, had suddenly fallen ill and lay dying.”
― Philip Short, Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare

“The corollary of this visceral desire to avoid confrontation at all costs is that debate and argument do not function as a means of resolving differences. Between the extremes of acquiescence and violence there is no middle ground. The”
― Philip Short, Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare

“For if there is one lesson worth retaining from the travails of the Cold War and the miseries it brought in its wake, it is the folly of seeking simple answers to complicated questions.”
― Philip Short, Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare

“The Vietnamese never asked themselves, any more than had the French, whether the Cambodians wanted the new system they were introducing. They acted in the unassailable certitude of a superior truth.”
― Philip Short, Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare

“Revolutions, even as they destroy, build on the model of what has gone before.”
― Philip Short, Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare

“Another Cercle member remembered Sary advising him to masturbate instead of wasting his time with young women.”
― Philip Short, Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare