We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIJustice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
-
-
Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
You 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 KYI -
The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
Sometimes 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 KYI -
Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
It is not a sacrifice, it’s a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn’t say it’s a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
I think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
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 KYI -
I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI