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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYII think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.
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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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I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
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So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.
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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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It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.
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Early childhood development has proved to be very beneficial and very cost-effective in societies where this is been tried. So let’s not confine ourselves to primary education. Let’s think of early childhood development and education as a whole.
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Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that ‘if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression’, human rights should be protected by the rule of law.
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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
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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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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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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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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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