Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIFearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.
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It’s good to know that the people of different countries are really concerned and involved in the movement to help Burma.
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Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
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More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they’ve got to go about it themselves – they can’t depend on a particular person, ie me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what’s going on all over the world.
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Jobless people will have no self-confidence. And they feel they are worthless because when you don’t have a job you have to rely on someone.
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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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The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
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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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Regimented minds cannot grasp the concept of confrontation as an open exchange of major differences with a view to settlement through genuine dialogue.
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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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Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.
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The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
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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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I think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.
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To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others.
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