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Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes | Quotes said by Aung San Suu Kyi

  • Aung San Suu Kyi Quote #1

    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.


  • Aung San Suu Kyi Quote #2

    Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity.

  • Aung San Suu Kyi Quote #3

    Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.

  • Aung San Suu Kyi Quote #4

    Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.

  • Aung San Suu Kyi Quote #5

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

  • Aung San Suu Kyi Quote #6

    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.

  • Aung San Suu Kyi Quote #7

    Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

  • Aung San Suu Kyi Quote #8

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

  • Aung San Suu Kyi Quote #9

    I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.

  • Aung San Suu Kyi Quote #10

    I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.

  • Aung San Suu Kyi Quote #11

    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 Quote #12

    I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.

  • Aung San Suu Kyi Quote #13

    I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.

  • Aung San Suu Kyi Quote #14

    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 Quote #15

    If ideas and beliefs are to be denied validity outside the geographical and cultural bounds of their origin, Buddhism would be confined to north India, Christianity to a narrow tract in the Middle East and Islam to Arabia.

  • Aung San Suu Kyi Quote #16

    If you're feeling helpless, help someone. ”
    ? Aung San Suu Kyi (from Freedom from Fear)

  • Aung San Suu Kyi Quote #17

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

    (From a speech read on video on August 31, 1995 before the NGO Forum on Women, Beijing, China)

  • Aung San Suu Kyi Quote #18

    It is not power that corrupts but fear.

  • Aung San Suu Kyi Quote #19

    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 Quote #20

    Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

  • Aung San Suu Kyi Quote #21

    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 Quote #22

    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 Quote #23

    My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.

  • Aung San Suu Kyi Quote #24

    Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

  • Aung San Suu Kyi Quote #25

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

  • Aung San Suu Kyi Quote #26

    Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery.

  • Aung San Suu Kyi Quote #27

    The people have given me their support; they have given me their trust and confidence. My colleagues have suffered a lot in order to give me support. I do not look upon my life as a sacrifice at all.

  • Aung San Suu Kyi Quote #28

    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 Quote #29

    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 Quote #30

    There is a special charm to journeys undertaken before daybreak in hot lands: the air is soft and cool and the coming of dawn reveals a landscape fresh from the night dew.

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