Quotes from Bhumibol Adulyadej

Some say that now that 50 years have passed, we would like another 50 more years to celebrate once again; that means it will be 100 years. After one hundred years, I will be 118 years old.

Support each other as is needed to achieve goals for the benefit of the people and the nation's security.

If you work well, the country will be in good order, and it will be a blessing to the country. The country needs good care.

Having an election with only one candidate running is impossible. This is not a democracy.

My philosophy has been to take things day by day. When I talk about this philosophy, it makes people perhaps a little surprised.

It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people.

It is a duty of everyone to cooperate and help each other.

I am not afraid if the criticism concerns what I do wrong, because then I know. Because if you say the King cannot be criticized, it means that the King is not human.

Western people ask me whether it is a paradox that I am King but support democracy. I have to tell them that in Thailand, the King is the guarantor of democracy.

If they want to criticize me, I don't care; I don't mind. But they must criticize me fairly. Usually, the criticism is not fair. Or the praise, even the praise sometimes is not fair.

Asking for a royally appointed prime minister is undemocratic. It is, pardon me, a mess. It is irrational.

A good person can make another person good it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society other persons will also be good.

Since that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not come by themselves; these changes have come from the doings of everyone in the country.

There is an English saying that the king is always happy, or, 'happy as the king' - which is not true at all. But I can be as happy as a king if all of you know what is right and what is wrong and cooperate to fix things.

If a great destruction occurs in Bangkok, then the country as a whole is also destroyed. In such a case, what is the point of anyone feeling proud to be the winner, when standing on a pile of ruins and rubble?

The King has a right to make political remarks. He is a Thai citizen and has his rights and freedoms under the Constitution. Each of you is under the Constitution, and so is the King. I am using my freedom under the Constitution.

The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands.

If Thai citizens still hold this harmony in their hearts, there is hope that in whatever the situation, Thailand will surely get through it safely and with stability.

Thailand was built on compassion.

The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country.

We must use the wrath of nature as our teacher.

Section 7 of the Constitution doesn't grant a power for the king to do whatever he wishes.

Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.

Therefore, I think that in the celebration of the 50 years of the present reign, there must be research on the changes that the country has undergone, and in the future, it could be used as a lesson for our future actions.