It is not a sacrifice, it’s a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn’t say it’s a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it
AUNG SAN SUU KYIAll right, your knees may be knocking but that shouldn’t prevent you from going ahead and doing what you need to do.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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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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If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it’s stalemate.
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There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
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You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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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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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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If you want democracy, you have got to be prepared to accept the responsibilities of democracy.
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Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.
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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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If you give in to intimidation, you’ll go on being intimidated
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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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Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
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Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.
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