67 Cambodia Quotes
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Famous Cambodia Quotes
Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all have seen, shall be existing with no end. — Hun Sen
When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that. — Pol Pot
The first step is that the Cambodian government has expressed sincerity to apologize for what happened. — Thaksin Shinawatra
The Vietnamese... wanted to assassinate me because they knew without me they could easily swallow up Cambodia. — Pol Pot
Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka. — Alexander Cockburn
Exterminate the 50 million Vietnamese and purify the masses of the [Cambodian] people. — Pol Pot
Korea is OUR country, Thailand is MY country. — Lisa Manoban
I want Thailand to be a peaceful country. — Thaksin Shinawatra
I'd love to visit Thailand just for the street food and the energy of a city like Bangkok. — Bobby Flay
Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and the world once again took too long to act. — Allyson Schwartz
I came to join the revolution, not to kill the Cambodian people. Look at me now. Am I a violent person? No. So, as far as my conscience and my mission were concerned, there was no problem. — Pol Pot
This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know about. — Rudyard Kipling
Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land. — Tariq Ramadan
Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds. — David Attenborough
Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions. — Todd Phillips
Short Cambodia Quotes
- Cambodia was not a mistake; it was a crime. The world is diminished by the experience. — William Shawcross
- Cambodia wanted no part of SEATO. We would look after ourselves as neutrals and Buddhists. — Norodom Sihanouk
- I have lived 78 years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia. — Lord Randolph Churchill
- I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia. — Emma Bonino
- I've been coming to Cambodia off and on, six months of the year usually. — Chath Piersath
- I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia. — Winston Churchill
- I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam. — Ed Bradley
People Writing About Cambodia
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Pol Pot |
30 | 1364 |
 Thaksin Shinawatra |
20 | 212 |
 Hun Sen |
12 | 87 |
 Alexander Cockburn |
26 | 208 |
 Bobby Flay |
39 | 358 |
 Allyson Schwartz |
12 | 383 |
More Cambodia Quotes
Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars. — George Galloway
There's what we did wrong and what we did right. The mistake is that we did some things against the people - by us and also by the enemy - but the other side, as I told you, is that without our struggle there would be no Cambodia right now. — Pol Pot
Other human rights atrocities from African slavery to the killing fields of Cambodia, the Armenian and Rwandan Genocides are all of course to be remembered, but diluting their particularity or comparing degrees of evil does no good. — Jeremy Corbyn
I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia. — Miep Gies
John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization. — Norodom Sihanouk
I don't consider myself a politician or a hero. I'm a messenger. If Cambodia is to survive, she needs many voices. — Dith Pran
From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to kill innocent individuals has dreadful consequences. — Pete du Pont
I felt beautiful when I was in Cambodia for Tomb Raider. I was sweaty, and my hair was matted and all over the place. And I was happy and hot and accomplishing a lot and running around, and I could feel my heart beating, and I felt beautiful. — Angelina Jolie
I'm quite satisfied on one thing: If we had not carried out our struggle, Cambodia would have become another Kampuchea Krom in 1975. — Pol Pot
The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system. — Noam Chomsky
Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam. — Jean-Marie Le Pen
Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts. — Hun Sen
I would hate to have "Holiday in Cambodia" become as tiresome to other people as hearing "Like a Rock" in a Chevrolet commercial. — Jello Biafra
[Nixon] wants a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. He doesn't want to hear anything about it. It's an order, to be done. Anything that flies on anything that moves. — Henry A. Kissinger
With 'swift-boating' now being used by the ignorant as a synonym for false charges, it's worth remembering that it was John Kerry who had to retract his statement about his secret Christmas mission to Cambodia, despite it having allegedly been 'seared, seared' into his memory. — Glenn Reynolds
There are a lot of recent pics of me rocking silk strings of beads. They're made by survivors of the sex trade in Cambodia who were rescued by one of the organizations I support. — AnnaLynne McCord
Everyone's a singer now, thanks to karaoke, for better and for much worse. But the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma. — Alan Bishop
I can tell you exactly where the economy is going. It's going to China, Honduras, Guatemala, Cambodia, Vietnam, Cipan, and any other place where you can pay people peanuts and have them work like dogs. — Henry Rollins
The events that followed our withdrawal from Vietnam, including the plight of the boat people and the more than 1 million slaughtered by the new communist rulers of Cambodia, showed that media critics who said we were on the wrong side were mistaken. — Richard M. Nixon
From 1965 to 1973, more munitions fell on Cambodia than on all of World War II Japan, including the two nuclear bombs of August 1945. — Sophal Ear
When I arrived in America, though I had left the war physically far behind, in my mind, the soldiers were still chasing to kill me, my stomach was always hungry, and my fear and distrust kept me from opening up to new friendships. I thought the war was over when I left Cambodia, but I realize now that for survivors and all those involved, the war is never over just because the guns have fallen silent. — Loung Ung
Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The Killing Fields on-screen, and the newcomer from Cambodia thinks he knows LA because he's seen City of Angels on video. — Pico Iyer
A government that intended to protect the liberty of the people would not disarm them. A government planning the opposite most certainly and logically would disarm them. And so it has been in this century. Check out the history of Germany, the Soviet Union, Cuba, China and Cambodia. — Charley Reese
I look and there's our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our son is from Cambodia, and they're brothers and sisters, man. They're brothers and sisters and it's a sight for elation. — Brad Pitt
The worst eras in human history, whether in Cambodia or Germany or Rwanda, they start like this, with negative Otherizing. — Elizabeth Lesser
But, you know, I just did a big trip in the spring to Vietnam and Cambodia and Thailand, and that's when I bought a Kindle. I have like 15 books on this one little gizmo. But when I came home, the first night I picked up the book that was on my nightstand and I went right back to that. — Lisa See
It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous. — John Negroponte
The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador. — Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Once the troops move into Cambodia, the colleges and universities of this country were on the verge of civil war. Many closed down. The students were up in arms. And it looked very much like there were going to be real problems in this country. — William Kunstler
Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and prove that there were no sanctuaries in that country. — William Kunstler
I'm somebody who works within Cambodia, with Cambodians. I work alongside the artists and society to work from within, so that is the focus, and from that I hope everybody who believes in democracy, in certain freedoms, will get louder, will grow their voices. — Angelina Jolie
We took a family trip to Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia over Christmas and New Year's. Three weeks was a long time, but it was cool, man. We were on the ocean, so that was kind of intense. After a couple of days you realize how far out you are. — Prince Fielder
The term "genocide" is often incorrectly assumed to mean extreme examples of mass murder associated with war, with the death of millions of individuals, as, for instance in Cambodia. Although clearly the Holocaust was the most extreme of all genocides, the bar set by the Nazis is not the bar required to be considered genocide. Most importantly, genocide does not have to be complete to be considered genocide. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
I was involved in trying to save the Rwandan people and Sudan now. It's a mass murder. Mass murder is a terrifying word. We don't have to go further than that. Cambodia came close to, but what was it, Cambodians killing Cambodians after all. So therefore I think we should be very careful with vocabulary. — Elie Wiesel
The ways sexuality plays out in political economies is central. And Cambodia's political economy is organized around this notion of family. So lesbianism is actually perceived as being threatening to a degree that it would have not been, for example, under socialist East Germany. But it's one of the essential issues of women's freedom: Do you get to do want you want to do with your body? Not if you don't know what your body is for. — Anne Elizabeth Moore
I don't want to be like, yes, I think the American answer is always stupid, or I think it's always the right answer. So I'm in this weird place there. I'm feeling it out. Cambodia is going through an enormous amount of change right now. Daily. — Anne Elizabeth Moore
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