"Tuol Sleng was a Vietnamese exhibition; a journalist wrote that. People talk about Tuol Sleng, Tuol Sleng, Toul Sleng, but when we look at the pictures, the pictures are the same. When I first heard about Tuol Sleng, it was on VOA . I listened twice."

Pol Pot Politics See all quotes by Pol Pot →

React to this quote

More by Pol Pot

“Biography of Comrade Pol Pot, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea”

“Pol Pot remembered " by Elizabeth Becker, at BBC News”

“Our policy was to provide an affluent life for the people. There were mistakes made in carrying it out. Several thousand people may have died.”

“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.”

“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.”

“We did not yet have laws or order. We were like children just learning to walk.”

Resonant Thoughts

"I do prefer men. I’ve always been very open about that. I don’t really care anymore about labels, per se, but I think it’s interesting to talk about the whole spectrum of the experiences. I think for …"

— Anthony Rapp

Music1971

#writing

"People did not go jumping from one place to another with nothing in between. It simply did not happen."

— Stephen R. Lawhead

Literature1950

#Human Nature

"Where there are neglected opportunities we will seize on them, and we will focus on the priorities of the people of London: cutting crime, improving transport, protecting green space, delivering affor…"

— Boris Johnson

Politics1964

#Human Nature

"Dinosaurs first existed around 6,000 years ago. Because dinosaurs were land animals, and God made all the land animals on day six of the creation week, dinosaurs were created on day six. Dinosaurs cou…"

— Ken Ham

Science1951

#time