Aung San Suu Kyi quotes

Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese politician, diplomat, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, recognized for her long struggle for democracy in Myanmar. Her activism inspired a global movement supporting human rights and nonviolent resistance. She has faced both international praise and criticism for her leadership and political actions. Here are 202 of her quotes:

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. (Aung San Suu Kyi)
You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right. View quote
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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. View quote
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I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny. View quote
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Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want. View quote
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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. View quote
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The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest. View quote
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My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves. View quote
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I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable. View quote
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The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation. View quote
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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. (Aung San Suu Kyi)
Fear is a habit; I am not afraid. View quote
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression', human rights should be protected by the rule of law. That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power. View quote
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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. View quote
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It is undeniably easier to ignore the hardships of those who are too weak to demand their rights than to respond sensitively to their needs. To care is to accept responsibility, to dare to act in accordance with the dictum that the ruler is the strength of the helpless. View quote
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Solidarity is a beautiful word because it means that you reach out to those who are different from you and who have to cope with different circumstances because we recognize that we all share the same human needs and same values. It is the values that count most of all. The value of freedom of thought, the value of democratic practices, the value of respect for your fellow human beings. View quote
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To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy. View quote
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Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means and an end. A people who would build a nation in which strong, democratic institutions are firmly established as a guarantee against state-induced power must first learn to liberate their own minds from apathy and fear. View quote
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Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace. View quote
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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. View quote
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As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many. (Aung San Suu Kyi)
The French say that to part is to die a little. To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity. View quote
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War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. View quote
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As long as there is no law in Burma, any individual here can be arrested at any time. View quote
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If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways. View quote
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