If you give in to intimidation, you’ll go on being intimidated
AUNG SAN SUU KYIIf you give in to intimidation, you’ll go on being intimidated
AUNG SAN SUU KYIIt is not a sacrifice, it’s a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn’t say it’s a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it
AUNG SAN SUU KYII don’t think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I’m just rather flexible and adaptable.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIHumor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIWeak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIIf you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThe 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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIWe 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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIYet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIWhen you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIChallenges mean opportunities as well.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIIf you want democracy, you have got to be prepared to accept the responsibilities of democracy.
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 KYII 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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that ‘if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression’, human rights should be protected by the rule of law.
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.
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