It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThe 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.
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All right, your knees may be knocking but that shouldn’t prevent you from going ahead and doing what you need to do.
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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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If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
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Intimidation and propaganda work in a duet of oppression, while the people, lapped in fear and distrust, learn to dissemble and to keep silent.
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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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There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
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It is not power that corrupts but fear.
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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 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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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.
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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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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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You must have perseverance, and then you must have wisdom. Then you combine these four and then you get to where you want to get to.
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Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.
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That’s not what it’s all about. It’s to try and find an answer that is acceptable to all parties concerned, which would of course require some give and take.
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