Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.
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
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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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The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
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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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Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.
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Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace.
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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same.
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I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
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There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
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Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.
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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.
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Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world…
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There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
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We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.
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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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