Sydney Schanberg My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot’s demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else. – Sydney Schanberg
Sydney Schanberg Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia. – Sydney Schanberg
Stephen Moore Stalin, Lenin, Marx, Mao, Pol Pot, Antifa, Castro, Che Guevara and the like use power to reduce the sanctity of the individual for the common good of the collective. It is a kind of enslavement that degrades the human spirit and makes us poorer over time. – Stephen Moore
Ricky Gervais Pol Pot – he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they’re that clever, take them off when they see him coming! – Ricky Gervais
