When I was in London a Kachin youth criticized me for not condemning the Burmese military for their offensive in Kachin State. I answered “condemnation is not the solution.” We want to build reconciliation, not condemnation.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIPart of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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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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If you are feeling helpless, help someone.
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If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
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The main aim of the [political] dialogue should be to resolve the problems of the nation, not to find who is the winner and who is the loser.
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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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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace.
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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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I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
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If you give in to intimidation, you’ll go on being intimidated
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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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There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
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Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world…
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With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.
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It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
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