There is no hope without endeavor.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIDemocracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not “given”, it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.
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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.
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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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Some 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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Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour.
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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 always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.
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The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same.
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The important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do.
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The four basic ingredients for success are: you must have the will to want something; you must have the right kind of attitude.
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It 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.
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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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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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Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.
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Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.
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