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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYISo peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.
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People ask me about what sacrifices I’ve made. I always answer: I’ve made no sacrifices, I’ve made choices.
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The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
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The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
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More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they’ve got to go about it themselves – they can’t depend on a particular person, ie me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what’s going on all over the world.
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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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I don’t think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I’m just rather flexible and adaptable.
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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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We must contemplate what the meaning of being “educated” is. Some people think a person with plenty of degrees is an educated one. But I believe a person who can judge a situation correctly and make timely decisions is more important.
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By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.
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Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not “given”, it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.
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It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
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I think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.
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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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It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.
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