The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems which lie at the root of social and economic difficulties and a lack of resolve in grappling with them.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThe four basic ingredients for success are: you must have the will to want something; you must have the right kind of attitude.
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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 do not believe that I’m sacrificing, in fact I feel very uneasy when others used the word sacrifice to describe my life. It sounds like I’m demanding returns for my investments.
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The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation’s development.
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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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Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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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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Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
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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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Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.
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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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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 would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.
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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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Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
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The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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Human rights must be protected by the rule of law, and there can never be occasions where human rights can be neglected or ignored or the rule of law set aside.
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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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To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others.
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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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Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
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If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
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By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.
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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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There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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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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