Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIYet 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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We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.
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That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.
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Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.
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Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.
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Jobless people will have no self-confidence. And they feel they are worthless because when you don’t have a job you have to rely on someone.
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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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I think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.
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It is not a sacrifice, it’s a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn’t say it’s a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it
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There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
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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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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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You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others.
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My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.
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The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
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