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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThe 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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If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
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If you feel helpless, go help someone.
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Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.
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I don’t think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I’m just rather flexible and adaptable.
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How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?
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To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict.
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Jobless people will have no self-confidence. And they feel they are worthless because when you don’t have a job you have to rely on someone.
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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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I think it’s time for the Army to understand that power should be enshrined in the people if we are to be a genuine democracy and not in any particular institution or organisation.
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It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.
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If you want democracy, you have got to be prepared to accept the responsibilities of democracy.
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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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My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.
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Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions.
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The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and the persistent assertion of their own rightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to the nation at large.
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