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 KYII 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.
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Human rights must be protected by the rule of law, and there can never be occasions where human rights can be neglected or ignored or the rule of law set aside.
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Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world…
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If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
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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 viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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There is nothing to compare with the courage of ordinary people whose names are unknown and whose sacrifices pass unnoticed.
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It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.
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I was given some Harry Potter books by a young friend. I wanted to know why young people liked it so much. And I noted that there were some values in Harry Potter that are common to many books that are popular all over the world. In the end,
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The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
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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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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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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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My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.
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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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Courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions, courage that could be described as ‘grace under pressure’ – grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.
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