The greatest gift for an individual or a nation… was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIEach man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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The important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do.
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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.
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The courage that dares without recognition, without the protection of media attention, is a courage that humbles and inspires and reaffirms our faith in humanity.
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Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
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Regimented minds cannot grasp the concept of confrontation as an open exchange of major differences with a view to settlement through genuine dialogue.
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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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I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don’t believe in people just hoping.
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The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation’s development.
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If you give in to intimidation, you’ll go on being intimidated
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Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
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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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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.
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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.
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We must contemplate what the meaning of being “educated” is. Some people think a person with plenty of degrees is an educated one. But I believe a person who can judge a situation correctly and make timely decisions is more important.
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