It is not a sacrifice, it’s a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn’t say it’s a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it
AUNG SAN SUU KYIPeople ask me about what sacrifices I’ve made. I always answer: I’ve made no sacrifices, I’ve made choices.
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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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I’ve always thought that the best solution for those who feel helpless is for them to help others.
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Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
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Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism.
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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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If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
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There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
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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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The greatest gift for an individual or a nation… was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.
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Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
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It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
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Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.
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I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
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Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.
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There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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