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 KYIThe 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 KYIEvery kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world…
AUNG SAN SUU KYIIf you give in to intimidation, you’ll go on being intimidated
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThere is no hope without endeavor.
AUNG SAN SUU KYISome 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 KYIRegimented minds cannot grasp the concept of confrontation as an open exchange of major differences with a view to settlement through genuine dialogue.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThat’s not what it’s all about. It’s to try and find an answer that is acceptable to all parties concerned, which would of course require some give and take.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIPart 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.
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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThere is nothing to compare with the courage of ordinary people whose names are unknown and whose sacrifices pass unnoticed.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIAll right, your knees may be knocking but that shouldn’t prevent you from going ahead and doing what you need to do.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIMore 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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIDemocracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not “given”, it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIIt is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIIt 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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIIt is not power that corrupts but fear.
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