By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIIf you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
-
-
We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mystery over yourself. It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
Without a revolution of the spirit, the forces which produced the iniquities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
One should mature over 20 years.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
If you feel helpless, go help someone.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
The 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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
If you want democracy, you have got to be prepared to accept the responsibilities of democracy.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
I think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
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 KYI