Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIWe have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.
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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 only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
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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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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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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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If you feel helpless, go help someone.
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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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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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It is not power that corrupts but fear.
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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 people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
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If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it’s stalemate.
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The people have to take part. They have to understand that they have the power to move things, and they must really commit themselves to change if they want it.
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I think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.
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Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.
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It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear.
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If you give in to intimidation, you’ll go on being intimidated
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Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
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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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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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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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Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.
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You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
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