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All Quotes by author - Aung San Suu Kyi

" Assuming the chairmanship of ASEAN isn't going to do anything about improving the lives of people. "

" By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves. "

" Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age. "

" Every government must consider the security of the country. That is just part of the responsibilities of any government. But true security can only come out of unity within a country where there are so many ethnic nationalities. "

" Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human. "

" Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom. "

" I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons. "

" I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable. "

" I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights. "

" 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. "

" If I were the blushing kind, I would blush to be called a hero. "

" If you do nothing you get nothing. "

" 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. "

" If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise. "

" 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. "

" I've always been strongly on the side of non-violence. "

" I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma, we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family. "

" One should mature over 20 years. "

" Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world. "

" 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. "

" The best way to help Burma is to empower the people of Burma, to help us have enough self-confidence to obtain what we want for ourselves. "

" The judiciary must be strengthened and released from political interference. "

" We 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. "

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