People ask me about what sacrifices I’ve made. I always answer: I’ve made no sacrifices, I’ve made choices.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIHow can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?
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The greatest gift for an individual or a nation… was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.
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I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.
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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it’s stalemate.
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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.
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Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
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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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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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One should mature over 20 years.
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If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
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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’s good to know that the people of different countries are really concerned and involved in the movement to help Burma.
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That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.
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The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
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