I think in some ways it’s better to have the people of the world on your side than the governments of the world, even if governments can be more effective in certain directions.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThe relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and the persistent assertion of their own rightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to the nation at large.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
-
-
Kindness can change the lives of people.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
One should mature over 20 years.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
You 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 KYI -
The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
I think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI