As I travel through my country, people often ask me how it feels to have been imprisoned in my home -first for six years, then for 19 months.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIIf you give in to intimidation, you’ll go on being intimidated
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
-
-
If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
Yet 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 KYI -
There is no hope without endeavor.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
If you want democracy, you have got to be prepared to accept the responsibilities of democracy.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems which lie at the root of social and economic difficulties and a lack of resolve in grappling with them.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI