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My attitude is, do as much as I can while I'm free. And if I'm arrested I'll still do as much as I can.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
#Arrested
#Attitude
#Free
#I Can
#Still
Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
#Age
#Become
#Maybe
#Poetry
#Something
By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
#Help
#Helping
#How
#Others
#Will
If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it's stalemate. There's a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
#Chess
#Difference
#Game
#Look
#Process
More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves - they can't depend on a particular person, i.e. me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
#Change
#Fool
#Me
#Work
#World
I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
#Courage
#Feel
#I Am
#People
#Why
Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
#Always
#Feeling
#Human
#People
#Rights
I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
#Bit
#Coward
#Dark
#Frightened
#Small
I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
#Heights
#Patriotism
#Rising
#See
#True
The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
#Democracy
#Life
#Political
#Struggle
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 Kyi
#Because
#Choose
#Nobody
#Sacrifice
#Say
To be forgotten, is to die a little.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
#Die
#Forgotten
#Little
The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
#Cannot
#Far
#Power
#Same
#Value
If you do nothing you get nothing.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
#Get
#Nothing
#You
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.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
#Democracy
#Dictatorship
#Opportunity
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.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
#Advocate
#Blind
#Faith
#Future
#Optimism
My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
#Attitude
#Negative
#Peace
#War
#World
Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
#Democracy
#Dreams
#Freedom
#Never
#Up
One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
#Alone
#Country
#Democracy
#Important
Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
#Freedom
#May
#Potential
#Security
#World
Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
#Democracy
#Government
#Keep
#People
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 Kyi
#Fear
#Losing
#Power Corrupts
#Power
#Who
Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
#Best
#Live
#Our
#Since
#World
Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
#Best
#Humor
#Ingredients
#Survival
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