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.
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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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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So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.
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The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
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Please use your freedom to promote ours.
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If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it’s stalemate.
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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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We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.
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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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Challenges mean opportunities as well.
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I’ve always thought that the best solution for those who feel helpless is for them to help others.
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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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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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Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.
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If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
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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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