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 KYIPlease use your freedom to promote ours.
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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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Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism.
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If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
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I think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.
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There is no hope without endeavor.
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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.
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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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Intimidation and propaganda work in a duet of oppression, while the people, lapped in fear and distrust, learn to dissemble and to keep silent.
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That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.
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The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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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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I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.
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Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.
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My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.
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