Top 9 Quotes by Aung San

Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution. Let us join hands to try to create a

Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution. Let us join hands to try to create a peaceful world where we can sleep in security and wake in happiness.

Aung San

Sleep, Hands, Peaceful

I always think challenges are interesting and help you to become a better person.

Aung San

Thinking, Interesting, Challenges

We cannot bank our hopes on possibilities. We must put our trust in ourselves, in our capabilities and efforts and strength and preparations not only for our success but even to avoid our own defeat.

Aung San

Effort, Preparation, Defeat

Presidential address to the AFPFL Supreme Council Session, August, 1946.

Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day.

Aung San

Rights, Order, Deny

Acceptance message for the 1990 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, July 1991.

Those of us who decided to work for democracy in Burma made our choice in the conviction that the danger of standing up for basic human rights in a repressive society was preferable to the safety of a quiescent life in servitude

Aung San

Rights, Safety, Choices

I think this is the case in the great majority of authoritarian states: on the surface, because of repression, everything seems frozen, but when the sun comes out and the ice melts, you find that there was a lot of life underneath all along.

Aung San

Thinking, Ice, Majority

It would be consistent and proper for us to join the war for democratic freedom, only if we would likewise be assured that democratic freedom in theory as well as in practice.

Aung San

War, Practice, Would Be

Address delivered at the meeting of East and West Association held on August 29, 1945, at the City Hall of Rangoon,

I am well aware that there is such a great craving in man for heroism and the heroic, and that hero worship forms not a small motif in his complex. I am also aware that, unless man believes in his own heroism and the heroism of others, he cannot achieve much or great things. We must, however, take proper care that we do not make a fetish of this cult of hero-worship, for then we will turn ourselves into votaries of false gods and prophets.

Aung San

Hero, Believe, Men

Presidential address to the first Congress of the AFPFL, January 20, 1946.