I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
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.
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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.
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I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
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The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
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Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
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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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I don’t like to be called a symbol. And I don’t like to be called an icon. I will just say that I have to work very, very hard. So I’d rather be known as a hard worker. I don’t think symbols do much, nor icons.
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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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Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.
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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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It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.
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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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You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
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Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions.
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I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.
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