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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThe good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
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Challenges mean opportunities as well.
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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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Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
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You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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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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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 that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
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The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.
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The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace.
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The 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.
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If you feel helpless, go help someone.
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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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Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.
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The greatest gift for an individual or a nation… was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.
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When I was in London a Kachin youth criticized me for not condemning the Burmese military for their offensive in Kachin State. I answered “condemnation is not the solution.” We want to build reconciliation, not condemnation.
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Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
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There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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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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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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There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
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Please use your freedom to promote ours.
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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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Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.
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There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
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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.
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