Sinnathamby Rajaratnam Quotes

Sinnathamby Rajaratnam , DUT , , was a Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore from 1980–85, a long-serving Minister and member of the Cabinet from 1959–88 and a short story writer. He was one of the pioneer leaders of independent Singapore as it achieved self-government in 1959 and later independence in 1965. He devoted much of his adult life to public service, and helped shape the mentality of Singaporeans on contemporary issues. One of the schools of Nanyang Technological University, is named the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in honour of him, as is the S. Rajaratnam block of his alma mater, Raffles Institution. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. February 1915 – 22. February 2006
Sinnathamby Rajaratnam: 12   quotes 0   likes

Famous Sinnathamby Rajaratnam Quotes

“One united people, regardless of race, language or religion.”

Rajaratnam penned the Singapore National Pledge in 1966.

“I think that Mr Rajaratnam has left an imprint on the Foreign Service of Singapore that it is a foreign policy of ideas.”

Professor Chan Heng Chee, Singapore Ambassador to the United States.

Sinnathamby Rajaratnam Quotes about people

Similar authors

Jiddu Krishnamurti photo
Jiddu Krishnamurti 233
Indian spiritual philosopher
V.S. Naipaul photo
V.S. Naipaul 34
Trinidadian-British writer of Indo-Nepalese ancestry
Robert Frost photo
Robert Frost 265
American poet
Edward Abbey photo
Edward Abbey 146
American author and essayist
Eckhart Tolle photo
Eckhart Tolle 251
German writer
Pablo Picasso photo
Pablo Picasso 128
Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stag…
Aldous Huxley photo
Aldous Huxley 290
English writer
Jean Paul Sartre photo
Jean Paul Sartre 321
French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, sc…
Paul Dirac photo
Paul Dirac 23
theoretical physicist
Virginia Woolf photo
Virginia Woolf 382
English writer