It is not power that corrupts but fear.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThat 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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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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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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We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mystery over yourself. It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting.
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Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism.
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If you feel helpless, go help someone.
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Intimidation and propaganda work in a duet of oppression, while the people, lapped in fear and distrust, learn to dissemble and to keep silent.
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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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There is no hope without endeavor.
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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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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.
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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour.
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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery.
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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.
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