Norodom Ranariddh
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1944-01-02
- Died
- 2021-11-28
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Droit public cambodgien
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Scale Mismatches in Management of Urban Landscapes
· 2006 · cited 172x
- Urban Biosphere and Society: Partnership of Cities—Introduction
· 2004 · cited 14x
- Global knowledge networking for site specific strategies: The International Conference on Biodiversity and Society
· 2002 · cited 7x
- Cambodia Neutral: The Dictate of Necessity
· 1958 · cited 6x
- Managing the Megacity for Global Sustainability: The New York Metropolitan Region as an Urban Biosphere Reserve
· 2004 · cited 6x
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Quotes
- “It is easier to talk about such things like democracy, human rights and freedom. Democracy is just a phrase to be talked about in idle gossip. Democracy means food for the people's stomach, shelter, education, medical facilities and basic amenities and the freedom to move freely. Discipline is more essential in our society than democracy, though they have a need of both.”
- “I didn't choose to be prince. But I am a citizen [and] as a citizen of this country I have the right to enter politics. It is not good to make such a discrimination. We are part of the Cambodian nation.”
- “I personally am too passionate, I am too much of a politician, and too outspoken to be a reasonable and successful king...definitely, I am no candidate for the throne.”
- “It's difficult to be the King's own son rather than his adopted son. That's Hun Sen. Samdech Hun Sen, as an adopted son, has the right not to listen to the King. I, as his [natural] son, don't have such a right.”
- “On the contrary, it will be a big gift if I am not King. I do not believe my father is happy to be King. He continues to blame me for making him King. I am happy also not to be King. We look too much like each other. He was deposed and I was deposed. History will talk about my father being deposed in 1970 in a coup d'etat. History will talk about Ranariddh as the deposed prime minister.”
- “If I have one final word to say, I have to quote Singapore's Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, when I met him after being appointed first prime minister. He told me this, 'You look like your father, you talk like your father, but please don't be like your father'. I think, what he said summed up my father. It is enough. With such an assessment, maybe it is not even necessary to write a book on Sihanouk and on me.”
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Key dates
- Born
- 2 January 1944
- Died
- 28 November 2021
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Phnom Penh
- Place of death
- Vauvenargues
- Spouse
- Norodom Marie Ranariddh
- Father
- Norodom Sihanouk
- Sibling
- Norodom Yuvaneath
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- Prime Minister of Cambodia