Pol Pot Quotes

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Maybe it's better like this, better that everything should go up in a blaze of dry grass and that people should begin again.

From the end spring new beginnings.

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

The sun is new each day.

Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.

We have it within our power to begin the world over again.

I came to join the revolution, not to kill the Cambodian people. Look at me now. Am I a violent person? No. So, as far as my conscience and my mission were concerned, there was no problem.

The young is always there to replace what we call the old. That's the process, even in nature.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth.

I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.

One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more.

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.

Many of us are experiencing a phase of change, shedding outdated patterns and liberating ourselves from the old by moving on to the new. The year 2012 is an important one for mankind, a pivotal year. The potential for this exists in the mere fact that the majority of us are yearning for change.

There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

The past is lying in flames. The future will rise from the flames within our hearts.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

There's always going to be a moment where it's out with the old, and in with the new. That's probably going to happen to me one day.

We all want to be renewed, don't we?

Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at night and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.