The peace of our world is indivisible. As long as negative forces are getting the better of positive forces anywhere, we are all at risk.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIFearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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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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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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To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict.
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It’s good to know that the people of different countries are really concerned and involved in the movement to help Burma.
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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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There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.
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The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
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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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How could I stand the separation from family and friends? It is ironic, I say, that in an authoritarian state it is only the prisoner of conscience who is genuinely free. Yes, we have given up our right to a normal life. But we have stayed true to that most precious part of our humanity-our conscience.
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It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear.
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Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
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There is no hope without endeavor.
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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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