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.
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.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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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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You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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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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I don’t like to be called a symbol. And I don’t like to be called an icon. I will just say that I have to work very, very hard. So I’d rather be known as a hard worker. I don’t think symbols do much, nor icons.
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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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You must have perseverance, and then you must have wisdom. Then you combine these four and then you get to where you want to get to.
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If you give in to intimidation, you’ll go on being intimidated
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It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear.
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I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
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By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.
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Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
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The important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do.
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Courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions, courage that could be described as ‘grace under pressure’ – grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.
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It is not power that corrupts but fear.
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