Mahathir's Quotes

#1. But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.

Abu Bakar Bashir

#2. Some people say that we here have no freedom of religion, ... In reality, the people in that country are the ones who were forced to embrace a religion.

Mahathir Mohamad

#3. I stand by my philosophy. Secrets fucking kill.

C.M. Stunich

#4. I'm brash and abrasive but that's because I've noticed when people are nice and polite they never get anywhere.

Mahathir Mohamad

#5. I not only think but also look and study things carefully. When I travel around, I look at things carefully, make comparisons of what I see. I don't accept things at face value, you cannot trust what you hear or see. Don't jump to conclusions without thinking.

Mahathir Mohamad

#6. I'm a pretty wild guy and I live pretty close to nature - I've often lived in caves or on the edge of cliffs or in forests - so it's just second nature for me to tap into the movings of the weather and the world.

Dean Potter

#7. We need an opposition to remind us if we are making mistakes. When you are not opposed you think everything you do is right.

Mahathir Mohamad

#8. Currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral. It should be stopped.

Mahathir Mohamad

#9. You should make your choices as though you were choosing on behalf of the whole of humanity,

Sarah Bakewell

#10. Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.

John Stuart Mill

#11. I cannot keep quiet even when I am a lone voice.

Mahathir Mohamad

#12. And I know what confidence medals can bring.

Gary Neville

#13. I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love.

Yasunari Kawabata

#14. You know, even I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane?

Elizabeth Gilbert

#15. Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.

Winston Churchill

#16. The Malays are spiritually inclined, tolerant and easy-going. The non-Malays, and especially the Chinese, are materialistic, aggressive and have an appetite for work. For equality to come about, it is necessary that these strikingly contrasting races adjust to each other.

Mahathir Mohamad

#17. Dorothy Day said - and I'm sure that Kathy Kelly would say the same thing - 'I'm working toward a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.' Now, think about that: a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.

Studs Terkel

#18. You try to play the song better than you had before.

John Petrucci

#19. If you can't be famous, at least you can be notorious.

Mahathir Mohamad

#20. Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part.

George Washington

#21. Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.

Gary Wolf

#22. Eddie became about one percent less tense.

Richelle Mead

#23. - I have an anguished, painful need to speak with you.

Fernando Pessoa

#24. If Dr. Mahathir thinks that by ordering the police to act like gangsters he will frighten the people from supporting this reformation movement, he is dreaming. I think he has cut himself off from reality.

Wan Azizah Wan Ismail

#25. History should remember Blair and Bush as the killers of children or as the lying prime minister and president.

Mahathir Mohamad

#26. Developing countries like Malaysia should have a say in changing the world financial system since we have faced the problems that it has caused.

Mahathir Mohamad

#27. The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

E. E. Cummings