Cambodians Quotes

#1. The crimes committed by the North Vietnamese regime against the Vietnamese people were minor compared to the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against the Cambodians, but for us on the left they were emotionally far more significant.

James Donald

#2. But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle?

Chris Bohjalian

#3. Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?

Henry A. Kissinger

#4. I want to save lives, including my own, but Cambodians believe we just rent this body. It is just a house for the spirit, and if the house is full of termites, it is time to leave.

Dith Pran

#5. For whatever reason, I don't know why, but Cambodians learned something in their suffering and their struggle that we have lost touch with.

Angelina Jolie

#6. Like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the Cambodians which followed it ... the lessons of the Holocaust must never be forgotten.

Ronald Reagan

#7. From 1975 to 1979 - through execution, starvation, disease, and forced labor - the Khmer Rouge systematically killed an estimated two million Cambodians, almost a fourth of the country's population.

Loung Ung

#8. You must create more margin so you have room for what's important, not merely urgent.

Michael Hyatt

#9. Hers to be his to be hers ad
infinitum, smoke smudging
the
bell of her throat. To what had
been or might've been her
thoughts migrated, cloth wall
he
pressed his hand against, he of
the indelicate embrace.

Nathaniel Mackey

#10. P6-the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within sociey.

C. Wright Mills

#11. Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.

William Feather

#12. That's the weird part: I know I don't know you. So how come I feel like I do?

David Mitchell

#13. What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?

Seneca The Younger

#14. He heard it from Pierce.

Colleen Masters

#15. How much did a Dragon hide, when he walked the streets of the city?

Michelle Sagara

#16. I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.

Thom Gunn

#17. It would take a good amount of work, a considerable amount of patience, and an unfathomable amount of foot rubs, but in the end - at least for a while - they lived happily.

Daniel Younger