People ask me about what sacrifices I’ve made. I always answer: I’ve made no sacrifices, I’ve made choices.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIHumor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
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I don’t think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I’m just rather flexible and adaptable.
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Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
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I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
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How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?
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The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems which lie at the root of social and economic difficulties and a lack of resolve in grappling with them.
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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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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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Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
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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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All right, your knees may be knocking but that shouldn’t prevent you from going ahead and doing what you need to do.
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The people have to take part. They have to understand that they have the power to move things, and they must really commit themselves to change if they want it.
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You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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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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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour.
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The greatest gift for an individual or a nation… was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.
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