The main aim of the [political] dialogue should be to resolve the problems of the nation, not to find who is the winner and who is the loser.
AUNG SAN SUU KYII 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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I don’t like to be called a symbol. And I don’t like to be called an icon. I will just say that I have to work very, very hard. So I’d rather be known as a hard worker. I don’t think symbols do much, nor icons.
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Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.
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I was given some Harry Potter books by a young friend. I wanted to know why young people liked it so much. And I noted that there were some values in Harry Potter that are common to many books that are popular all over the world. In the end,
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I don’t think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I’m just rather flexible and adaptable.
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I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.
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There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
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My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace – it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this 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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Please use your freedom to promote ours.
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Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
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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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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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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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I do not believe that I’m sacrificing, in fact I feel very uneasy when others used the word sacrifice to describe my life. It sounds like I’m demanding returns for my investments.
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Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.
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