Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIIf you feel helpless, go help someone.
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Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace.
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I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don’t believe in people just hoping.
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You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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When I was in London a Kachin youth criticized me for not condemning the Burmese military for their offensive in Kachin State. I answered “condemnation is not the solution.” We want to build reconciliation, not condemnation.
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Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.
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The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.
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To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict.
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Intimidation and propaganda work in a duet of oppression, while the people, lapped in fear and distrust, learn to dissemble and to keep silent.
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The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour.
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The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
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I think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that ‘if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression’, human rights should be protected by the rule of law.
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