If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIIf you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThe relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and the persistent assertion of their own rightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to the nation at large.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIIt is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIFear is not the natural state of civilized people.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIMore people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they’ve got to go about it themselves – they can’t depend on a particular person, ie me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what’s going on all over the world.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIDemocracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not “given”, it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIWe must contemplate what the meaning of being “educated” is. Some people think a person with plenty of degrees is an educated one. But I believe a person who can judge a situation correctly and make timely decisions is more important.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIEach man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThe value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIChallenges mean opportunities as well.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThere is nothing to compare with the courage of ordinary people whose names are unknown and whose sacrifices pass unnoticed.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIA 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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThe viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIMy top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.
AUNG SAN SUU KYII do not believe that I’m sacrificing, in fact I feel very uneasy when others used the word sacrifice to describe my life. It sounds like I’m demanding returns for my investments.
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