With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIEarly childhood development has proved to be very beneficial and very cost-effective in societies where this is been tried. So let’s not confine ourselves to primary education. Let’s think of early childhood development and education as a whole.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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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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Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.
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There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
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I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.
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I chose to walk on this journey, because I solely believed in it and wholeheartedly decided to do so, and I’m willing and able to pay for the consequences.
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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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Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.
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I don’t think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I’m just rather flexible and adaptable.
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It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear.
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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.
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By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.
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The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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Challenges mean opportunities as well.
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