Better to kill an innocent by mistake than spare an enemy by mistake.

I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.

He who protests is an enemy; he who opposes is a corpse.

Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.

We will burn the old grass and the new will grow.

To kill the grass you must also remove the root

If you have a disease of the old society, take a dose of Lenin as medication.

Exterminate the 50 million Vietnamese and purify the masses of the [Cambodian] people.

I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country.

Hunger is the most effective disease.

No gain in keeping, no loss in weeding out.

How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.

I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.

Many girls want to be carnal with me because I'm such a premium dancer.

People say Cream gave birth to heavy metal. If that's so, we should have had an abortion.

Most geniuses are just talented people who get up really early in the morning.

I can testify that it is nearly always easier to make $1,000,000 honestly than to dispose of it wisely.

When you can use dirty words in every situation with everyone, that's a real big liberation.

Apart from the mercy of God, there is no other source of hope for mankind.

The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.

I love Apocalypse Now because it's a war movie, but yet it's not really a movie about war.