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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYII don’t think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I’m just rather flexible and adaptable.
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That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.
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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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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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Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.
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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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It is not power that corrupts but fear.
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I think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.
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I don’t think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I’m just rather flexible and adaptable.
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There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
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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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Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.
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If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
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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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Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.
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There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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If you are feeling helpless, help someone.
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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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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.
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When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.
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I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.
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The four basic ingredients for success are: you must have the will to want something; you must have the right kind of attitude.
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Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.
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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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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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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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The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
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