The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThe education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThere is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
AUNG SAN SUU KYISome 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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIWe 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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYII only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIYet 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 KYIIf you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIEarly childhood development has proved to be very beneficial and very cost-effective in societies where this is been tried. So let’s not confine ourselves to primary education. Let’s think of early childhood development and education as a whole.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThe quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation’s development.
AUNG SAN SUU KYITo be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThe 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 KYISo 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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIJustice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIHow 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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIKindness can change the lives of people.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIIf you are feeling helpless, help someone.
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