If you give in to intimidation, you’ll go on being intimidated
AUNG SAN SUU KYIOne should mature over 20 years.
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Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not “given”, it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.
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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.
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It is not power that corrupts but fear.
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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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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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Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.
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Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
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That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.
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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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To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others.
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Please use your freedom to promote ours.
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I think it’s time for the Army to understand that power should be enshrined in the people if we are to be a genuine democracy and not in any particular institution or organisation.
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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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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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