Skip to content

For the first time in my life, I have to grab the monks by the throat. Me! The most religious man in the Kingdom! Because I've had enough- more than enough! My subjects and the elite among my subjects must obey!

— Norodom Sihanouk Reaction to two Buddhist orders sympathising with communist rebels (1952)

Another quote →

More quotes by Norodom Sihanouk

Ah, China is a formidable country. An Asian can't help but love China and take pride in it. China doesn't export tanks and men. It exports dignity and respect.

I'm not a communist, but I'm not anti-communist either. I'm not afraid of communists, and declare that if a country wants to be communist, it has the right to be so.

For God's sake! If I ran a dictatorship, then what is Lon Nol running? I renounced my throne to show the masses that there's no such thing as divine right, that no one descends from the heavens to rule the people.

From now on, any individual or any political party that opposes My policies will be declared a traitor to the Nation and... punished [accordingly].

He's the truest friend I've ever had. What's more, he's an exquisite man, full of kindness and sophistication, the most aristocratic aristocrat one can meet. To those who can't understand how I, a non-communist, could be friends with Zhou Enlai, I say: "But he's a prince more princely than I am!"

All Norodom Sihanouk quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Norodom Sihanouk (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.