How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?
AUNG SAN SUU KYIIt 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.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
-
-
There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
I was given some Harry Potter books by a young friend. I wanted to know why young people liked it so much. And I noted that there were some values in Harry Potter that are common to many books that are popular all over the world. In the end,
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
One should mature over 20 years.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it’s stalemate.
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 -
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 -
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 -
Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
It is not power that corrupts but fear.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace – it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI