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 KYIWe achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mystery over yourself. It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting.
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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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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.
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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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The peace of our world is indivisible. As long as negative forces are getting the better of positive forces anywhere, we are all at risk.
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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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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.
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Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
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The people have to take part. They have to understand that they have the power to move things, and they must really commit themselves to change if they want it.
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The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour.
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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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There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
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It is not power that corrupts but fear.
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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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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.
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