Intimidation and propaganda work in a duet of oppression, while the people, lapped in fear and distrust, learn to dissemble and to keep silent.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIYou may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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If you are feeling helpless, help someone.
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The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
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I think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.
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I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
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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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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour.
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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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The four basic ingredients for success are: you must have the will to want something; you must have the right kind of attitude.
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As I travel through my country, people often ask me how it feels to have been imprisoned in my home -first for six years, then for 19 months.
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Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions.
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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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All right, your knees may be knocking but that shouldn’t prevent you from going ahead and doing what you need to do.
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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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It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.
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Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism.
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