Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes - Page 3

Kindness can change the lives of people.

When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.

The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.

We must all work together if we are all to live together in unity and harmony.

When you feel helpless, help someone.

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely "tolerated", they are valued.

All right, your knees may be knocking but that shouldn't prevent you from going ahead and doing what you need to do.

We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.

I think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.

Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.

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

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

I've always thought that the best solution for those who feel helpless is for them to help others.

Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions.

I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.

There is no hope without endeavor.

Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.

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.

Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.

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.

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.

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. 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.

Regimented minds cannot grasp the concept of confrontation as an open exchange of major differences with a view to settlement through genuine dialogue.

If you feel helpless, go help someone.

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.