Some 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 KYIIf you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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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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The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
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Without a revolution of the spirit, the forces which produced the iniquities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration.
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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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Early 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.
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Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not “given”, it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.
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I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.
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I think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.
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Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
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I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
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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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How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?
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Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
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In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely “tolerated”, they are valued.
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Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
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