We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves.
AUNG SAN SUU KYISome of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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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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It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.
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You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.
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By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.
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It’s good to know that the people of different countries are really concerned and involved in the movement to help Burma.
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I think in some ways it’s better to have the people of the world on your side than the governments of the world, even if governments can be more effective in certain directions.
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Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.
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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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It is not power that corrupts but fear.
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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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Courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions, courage that could be described as ‘grace under pressure’ – grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.
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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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Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
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Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.
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A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success.
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