Aung San Suu Kyi

Aung San Suu Kyi

"Whatever help we may want from the international community now or in the future, we want to make sure that this help is tailored to help our people to help themselves."
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"Whatever help we may want from the international community now or in the future, we want to make sure that this help is tailored to help our people to help themselves."
Aung San Suu Kyi
"We are not out to boast that there is so much percentage of growth per year. Our real concern is how it affects the lives of people, the future of our country."
Aung San Suu Kyi
"Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential."
Aung San Suu Kyi
"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
"I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own."
Aung San Suu Kyi
"One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country."
Aung San Suu Kyi
"The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence."
Aung San Suu Kyi
"Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose."
Aung San Suu Kyi
"The Nobel Peace Prize opened up a door in my heart."
Aung San Suu Kyi
"This was the way I was brought up to think of politics, that politics was to do with ethics, it was to do with responsibility, it was to do with service, so I think I was conditioned to think like that, and I'm too old to change now."
Aung San Suu Kyi
"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
"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
"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
"I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous."
Aung San Suu Kyi
"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
"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
"The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development."
Aung San Suu Kyi
"Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world."
Aung San Suu Kyi
"Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age."
Aung San Suu Kyi
"War is not the only arena where peace is done to death."
Aung San Suu Kyi
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