My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace – it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThe good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
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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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Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world…
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More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they’ve got to go about it themselves – they can’t depend on a particular person, ie me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what’s going on all over the world.
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It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.
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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
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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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One should mature over 20 years.
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Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism.
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If you feel helpless, go help someone.
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I was given some Harry Potter books by a young friend. I wanted to know why young people liked it so much. And I noted that there were some values in Harry Potter that are common to many books that are popular all over the world. In the end,
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that ‘if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression’, human rights should be protected by the rule of law.
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Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.
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Yet 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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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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