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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIEvery kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world…
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same.
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Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
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The important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do.
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Jobless people will have no self-confidence. And they feel they are worthless because when you don’t have a job you have to rely on someone.
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I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don’t believe in people just hoping.
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Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
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Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.
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I don’t think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I’m just rather flexible and adaptable.
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Please use your freedom to promote ours.
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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism.
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I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.
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The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
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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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Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not “given”, it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.
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