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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIIf 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.
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Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
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Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.
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We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.
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Early childhood development has proved to be very beneficial and very cost-effective in societies where this is been tried. So let’s not confine ourselves to primary education. Let’s think of early childhood development and education as a whole.
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I don’t think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I’m just rather flexible and adaptable.
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The four basic ingredients for success are: you must have the will to want something; you must have the right kind of attitude.
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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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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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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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I think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.
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The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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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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In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely “tolerated”, they are valued.
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There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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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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