The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
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.
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Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.
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When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.
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I think in some ways it’s better to have the people of the world on your side than the governments of the world, even if governments can be more effective in certain directions.
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Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.
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That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.
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It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.
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Early 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.
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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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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 only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
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There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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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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Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
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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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