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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIMy top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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As I travel through my country, people often ask me how it feels to have been imprisoned in my home -first for six years, then for 19 months.
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The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
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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 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.
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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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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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Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world…
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If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
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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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Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.
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Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
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Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
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The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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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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One should mature over 20 years.
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