Vietnamese Quotes

• The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

  Ho Chi Minh

  Pregnancy, Men, People

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the one side won an ideological and political victory, the other made Apocalypse Now and that has gone right around the world.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Military, War, Space

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.49, Verso

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• America has made no reparation to the Vietnamese, nothing. We are the richest people in the world and they are among the poorest. We savaged them, though they had never hurt us, and we cannot find it in our hearts, our honor, to give them help-because the government of Vietnam is Communist. And perhaps because they won.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Hurt, War, Heart

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• The fact is that the Vietnamese held Americans after 1973.

  Bo Gritz

  Facts

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• Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Identity, Made, Feels

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• I only follow one party: the Vietnamese Party.

  Ho Chi Minh

  Party, Pumpkin

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.

  Curtis LeMay

  Horny, Age, Would Be

  "Mission With LeMay: My Story" by Curtis E. LeMay, MacKinlay Kantor, (p. 565), 1965.

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• Nobody gives way to anybody. Everyone just angles, points, dives directly toward his destination, pretending it is an all-or-nothing gamble. People glare at one another and fight for maneuvering space. All parties are equally determined to get the right-of-way--insist on it. They swerve away at the last possible moment, giving scant inches to spare. The victor goes forwards, no time for a victory grin, already engaging in another contest of will. Saigon traffic is Vietnamese life, a continuous charade of posturing, bluffing, fast moves, tenacity and surrenders.

  Andrew X. Pham

  Party, Moving, Fighting

  Andrew X. Pham (2010). “Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam”, p.75, Macmillan

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• The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that.

  George Wald

  Thank You, Heaven, Secret

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• Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk, author and peace activist.

  Nhat Hanh

  Breathe, Monk, Activist

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• Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Groups, Looks, Dozen

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.324, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Shape your coat according to your cloth.

  Thomas Nashe

  Coats, Shapes

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• Cut your coat according to your cloth.

  John Heywood

  Humility, Cutting, Coats

  John Heywood, Rudolph E. Habenicht (1963). “A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht”

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• It's just as evil to kill Vietnamese as it is to kill Americans.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Fun, Evil

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• Whoever wishes to blame or attack me is entitled to do so. I regret I didn't have enough experience to totally control the movement. On the other hand, with our constant struggle, this had to be done together with others in the communist world to stop Kampuchea becoming Vietnamese.

  Pol Pot

  Regret, Struggle, Hands

  "Day of Reckoning". "Far Eastern Economic Review" Magazine, October 1997.

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• You have to wear a different face when you're interacting with the larger culture. And you can be more of yourself at home or in the local market or in the local church speaking your own language. That was my sense growing up as a Vietnamese refugee in San Jose.

  Nguyen Viet Thang

  Growing Up, Home, Different Faces

  "'The Refugees' Author Says We Should All Know What It Is To Be An Outsider". Interview with Ari Shapiro, kccu.org. February 10, 2017.

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• The ideal pre-show meal I think is pho, the Vietnamese soup. It's very light and good for you, and then the broth is great for the throat.

  Kevin Morby

  Thinking, Light, Meals

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 40, 50 years ago, Americans - the majority of Americans did not want to accept these Vietnamese refugees who they saw as completely foreign. Now there are new foreigners - Syrians and other people from the Middle East, people of Muslim backgrounds. And the sense among many Americans is, well, these people are completely different from us, and they're not like the Vietnamese who are much more assimilable. And I think that's very, very doubtful. I think that the majority of these new foreigners, if given the opportunity, will be able to assimilate and deal with American culture.

  Nguyen Viet Thang

  Opportunity, Thinking, Years

  "'The Refugees' Author Says We Should All Know What It Is To Be An Outsider". Interview with Ari Shapiro, wbgo.org. February 10, 2017.

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• One of the questions asked in that study was, How many Vietnamese casualties would you estimate that there were during the Vietnam war? The average response on the part of Americans today is about 100,000. The official figure is about two million. The actual figure is probably three to four million. The people who conducted the study raised an appropriate question: What would we think about German political culture if, when you asked people today how many Jews died in the Holocaust, they estimated about 300,000? What would that tell us about German political culture?

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Thinking, Average

  "Media Control". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1991.

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• I lived in San Jose for a little bit, and one of my neighbors was Vietnamese and was teasing me. I said "I've had pho," and then he goes, "Oh, what do you get, the number one big bowl?" I was like, "Come on, man. You don't have to come at me like that." But yeah, I've tried tendon. Tendon eventually yields.

  Adam Richman

  Men, Yield, Numbers

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We want only peace, to build up our country. World opinion is paying great attention to the threat against Democratic Kampuchea. They are anxious, they fear Kampuchea cannot oppose the Vietnamese. This could hurt the interests of the Southeast Asian countries and all of the world's countries.

  Pol Pot

  Country, Hurt, Asian

  "Pol Pot remembered" by Elizabeth Becker, news.bbc.co.uk. April 20, 1998.

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• I have a funny story to tell about English and how I came to fall in love with the language. I was desperate to fit in and spoke English all the time. Trouble was, in my household it was a no-no to speak English because somehow it is disrespectful to call parents and grandparents "you" - impersonal pronouns are offensive in Vietnamese.

  Andrew Lam

  Falling In Love, Speak English, Grandparent

  "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• I would think somebody like Jane Fonda and her idiot husband would be terribly ashamed and saddened that they were a part of causing us to stop helping the South Vietnamese. Now look what's happening. They're getting killed by the millions. Murdered by the millions. How the hell can she and her husband sleep at night?

  John Wayne

  Husband, Sleep, Night

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• I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government.... There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,' but will curse and damn you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children!' There is something wrong with that press.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Children, Ghetto, Damn You

  "We Need Martin Luther King Jr.’s Antiwar Rage Now More Than Ever" by Ja’han Jones, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 04, 2018.

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• Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a videotaped false confession are now the techniques the Bush administration is using to gain "intelligence" about terror networks. How is it possible to know that everything John McCain once said on videotape for the enemy was false, because it was coerced, and yet assert that everything we torture out of terror suspects using exactly the same techniques is true?

  Andrew Sullivan

  Historical, Enemy, Gains

  "Bush, McCain, Torture". "The Daily Dish", www.theatlantic.com. July 02, 2008.

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