The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
AUNG SAN SUU KYII think it’s time for the Army to understand that power should be enshrined in the people if we are to be a genuine democracy and not in any particular institution or organisation.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.
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Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
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The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.
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There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
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We must contemplate what the meaning of being “educated” is. Some people think a person with plenty of degrees is an educated one. But I believe a person who can judge a situation correctly and make timely decisions is more important.
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As I travel through my country, people often ask me how it feels to have been imprisoned in my home -first for six years, then for 19 months.
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Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world…
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The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems which lie at the root of social and economic difficulties and a lack of resolve in grappling with them.
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How could I stand the separation from family and friends? It is ironic, I say, that in an authoritarian state it is only the prisoner of conscience who is genuinely free. Yes, we have given up our right to a normal life. But we have stayed true to that most precious part of our humanity-our conscience.
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I think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.
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The important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do.
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When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.
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I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
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There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
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