Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThe 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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There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
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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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Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world…
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The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
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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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The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
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Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace.
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I think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.
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People ask me about what sacrifices I’ve made. I always answer: I’ve made no sacrifices, I’ve made choices.
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We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.
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Regimented minds cannot grasp the concept of confrontation as an open exchange of major differences with a view to settlement through genuine dialogue.
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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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I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
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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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I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
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