The main aim of the [political] dialogue should be to resolve the problems of the nation, not to find who is the winner and who is the loser.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIIf you are feeling helpless, help someone.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
-
-
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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems which lie at the root of social and economic difficulties and a lack of resolve in grappling with them.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
I don’t think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I’m just rather flexible and adaptable.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
I 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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
If you are feeling helpless, help someone.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
People ask me about what sacrifices I’ve made. I always answer: I’ve made no sacrifices, I’ve made choices.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI