Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
AUNG SAN SUU KYII only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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I think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.
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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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I chose to walk on this journey, because I solely believed in it and wholeheartedly decided to do so, and I’m willing and able to pay for the consequences.
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How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?
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Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery.
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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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Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.
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Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions.
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If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
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If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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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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Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.
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It is not power that corrupts but fear.
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We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.
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