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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.

Pol Pot will surrender, be captured or commit suicide.

Listen, 'The Purge' actually exists in some form or another in many places around the world when you think about it.

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

The seed of revolution is repression.

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

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!