Kindness can change the lives of people.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThere is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves.
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The 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.
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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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People ask me about what sacrifices I’ve made. I always answer: I’ve made no sacrifices, I’ve made choices.
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Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery.
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That’s not what it’s all about. It’s to try and find an answer that is acceptable to all parties concerned, which would of course require some give and take.
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The people have to take part. They have to understand that they have the power to move things, and they must really commit themselves to change if they want it.
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The greatest gift for an individual or a nation… was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.
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If you give in to intimidation, you’ll go on being intimidated
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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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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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The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
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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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The peace of our world is indivisible. As long as negative forces are getting the better of positive forces anywhere, we are all at risk.
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