Author: Lee Kuan Yew

Cited by

• Vyvyane Loh (1)
  • IN: Breaking the Tongue (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "A person who gets deculturalised—and I nearly was, so I know this danger—loses his self-confidence. He suffers from a sense of deprivation. For optimum performance a man must know himself and the world. He must know where he stands. I speak the English language better than the Chinese language because I learnt English early in life. But I will never be an Englishman in a thousand generations and I have not got the Western value system inside; mine is an Eastern value system. Nevertheless, I use Western concepts, Western words because I understand them. But I also have a different system in my mind."
    FROM: National Day Rally speech, (1978), Speech, Singapore
• Suchen Christine Lim (1)
  • IN: The River's Song (2013) Fiction, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: My most ambitious plan was to clean up the Singapore River and Kallang Basin and bring fish back to the rivers.
    FROM: From Third World to First: The Singapore Story, (2000), Book, Singapore
• Buck Song Koh (1)
  • IN: The Ocean of Ambition (2003) Poetry, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: not pausing to realise that there are those who care three hoots simply that you even exist
    FROM: Owl Sighting, Tanglin, (None), Article, Singapore
• Pranav S. Joshi (1)
  • IN: Behind a Cultural Cage (2007) Novel, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: The basis of our culture is what we inherited from our original countries, our original cultures.
    FROM: The Straits Time, (2006), Article, Singapore