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.
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.
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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that ‘if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression’, human rights should be protected by the rule of law.
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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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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
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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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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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Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
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To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict.
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A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success.
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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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Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
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If you feel helpless, go help someone.
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