The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems which lie at the root of social and economic difficulties and a lack of resolve in grappling with them.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIWe 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.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
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By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.
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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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That’s not what it’s all about. It’s to try and find an answer that is acceptable to all parties concerned, which would of course require some give and take.
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I don’t like to be called a symbol. And I don’t like to be called an icon. I will just say that I have to work very, very hard. So I’d rather be known as a hard worker. I don’t think symbols do much, nor icons.
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The 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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As I travel through my country, people often ask me how it feels to have been imprisoned in my home -first for six years, then for 19 months.
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I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don’t believe in people just hoping.
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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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To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others.
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It is not power that corrupts but fear.
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Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.
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Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
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You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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Human rights must be protected by the rule of law, and there can never be occasions where human rights can be neglected or ignored or the rule of law set aside.
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