I 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 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 KYIThe important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIJobless 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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThere is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIPeople ask me about what sacrifices I’ve made. I always answer: I’ve made no sacrifices, I’ve made choices.
AUNG SAN SUU KYITo be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIEarly childhood development has proved to be very beneficial and very cost-effective in societies where this is been tried. So let’s not confine ourselves to primary education. Let’s think of early childhood development and education as a whole.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIYou must have perseverance, and then you must have wisdom. Then you combine these four and then you get to where you want to get to.
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 KYII think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIEach and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIMy top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIGovernment leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThe true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
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 KYIFear is not the natural state of civilized people.
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