Jobless people will have no self-confidence. And they feel they are worthless because when you don’t have a job you have to rely on someone.
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.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour.
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We 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.
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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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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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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.
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The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation’s development.
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The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
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My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.
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Challenges mean opportunities as well.
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How could I stand the separation from family and friends? It is ironic, I say, that in an authoritarian state it is only the prisoner of conscience who is genuinely free. Yes, we have given up our right to a normal life. But we have stayed true to that most precious part of our humanity-our conscience.
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There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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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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Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
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Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
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Intimidation and propaganda work in a duet of oppression, while the people, lapped in fear and distrust, learn to dissemble and to keep silent.
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