Lee Kuan Yew

Principles are our summary of their public statements.

• Pragmatic Social Cohesion

  Leadership

  He advocates for a measured and pragmatic approach to sensitive social issues to maintain stability and harmony within the community.

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• Objective Press Responsibility

  Content

  He believes the press should prioritize truth and separate news reporting from editorials rather than crusading for specific agendas.

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• Meritocracy and Anti-Corruption

  Management

  Building a highly developed nation requires strict adherence to merit-based systems and the elimination of corruption to ensure institutional efficiency.

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• Scale Proven Methods Aggressively

  Strategy

  When a specific system or rule is inherited and proven effective, it should be expanded to cover more areas rather than being kept at a minimal level. He took the inherited British judicial caning and significantly widened its application to ensure widespread compliance.

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• Beware the slippery slope of repression

  Leadership

  Once a leader begins to suppress opposition or control the media to hide failures, it becomes a habit that eventually leads to a fragile, superficial tranquility.

  Supporting quotes

  • “If you believe in democracy, you must believe in it unconditionally. If you believe that men should be free, then, they should have the right of free association, of free speech, of free publication.”

    “If we are to survive as a free democracy, then we must be prepared, in principle, to concede to our enemies - even those who do not subscribe to our views - as much constitutional rights as you concede yourself.”

  1 more supporting quote is in the member records.

• Prioritize performance over ideology

  Strategy

  Survival in a competitive environment depends on extraordinary performance and maintaining the systems that enable it, rather than adhering to libertarian ideals.

  3 more supporting quotes are in the member records.

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