Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIYou may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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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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The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
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So 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.
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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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Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.
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I chose to walk on this journey, because I solely believed in it and wholeheartedly decided to do so, and I’m willing and able to pay for the consequences.
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Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
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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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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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Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
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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.
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If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
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Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
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There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
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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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