You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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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I think in some ways it’s better to have the people of the world on your side than the governments of the world, even if governments can be more effective in certain directions.
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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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It is not power that corrupts but fear.
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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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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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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.
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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 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.
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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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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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If you feel helpless, go help someone.
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With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.
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Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
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In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely “tolerated”, they are valued.
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