People ask me about what sacrifices I’ve made. I always answer: I’ve made no sacrifices, I’ve made choices.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIPeople ask me about what sacrifices I’ve made. I always answer: I’ve made no sacrifices, I’ve made choices.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThe courage that dares without recognition, without the protection of media attention, is a courage that humbles and inspires and reaffirms our faith in humanity.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIYou 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.
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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIWhen you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that ‘if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression’, human rights should be protected by the rule of law.
AUNG SAN SUU KYITo 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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYII don’t think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I’m just rather flexible and adaptable.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIIt is not power that corrupts but fear.
AUNG SAN SUU KYISometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIHuman beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIBy helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.
AUNG SAN SUU KYISince we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThe value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same.
AUNG SAN SUU KYISometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIA revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success.
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