Top 100 Suu Kyi Quotes
#1. We pray that Aung San Suu Kyi and her country are now on a path to freedom
Desmond Tutu
#2. Playing Aung San Suu Kyi was a journey in itself. She represents many things for many people and for many reasons. Although I have played many important roles in my life, I can say that this role has been a journey of self-realisation.
Michelle Yeoh
#3. To have internal peace and stability and economic development, it is important to have good relations with the political parties that we have in our country. That is why we have had engagement with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
Thein Sein
#4. I was struck by Suu Kyi's warmth and generosity. No matter how petite she looks, she exudes amazing strength. More than anything else, I felt like I already knew her, like she was an old friend, because I'd been watching her so intently, and she was exactly what I had figured she would be.
Michelle Yeoh
#5. Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#6. The four basic ingredients for success are: you must have the will to want something; you must have the right kind of attitude; you must have perseverance, and then you must have wisdom. Then you combine these four and then you get to where you want to get to.
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#7. In his twilight years Hmaing became a supporter of leftist politics while remaining a devout Buddhist. It is open to question how much he actually absorbed of the Marxist socialist ideologies embraced by many of his young disciples. Khitsan
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#8. All repressive laws must be revoked, and laws introduced to protect the rights of the people.
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#9. People should be concerned about installing a more sensible, responsible government. What we [the burmese] need is a government that is accountable and transparent, so that the people know what it is doing and can judge for themselves whether or not they like what is being done.
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#10. Sometimes I didn't even have enough money to eat. I became so weak from malnourishment that my hair fell out, and I couldn't get out of bed.
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#11. I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.
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#12. After all it was my father who founded the Burmese army and I do have a sense of warmth towards the Burmese army.
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#13. 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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#14. In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.
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#15. All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original.
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#16. If the restrictions on the work of my party and on me personally are not removed in the very, very near future - that is in a matter of days - I think the United States should start thinking seriously of sanctions. This is really about as bad as it has ever been.
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#17. 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.
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#18. I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.
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#19. Investment that only goes to enrich an already wealthy elite bent on monopolizing both economic and political power cannot contribute toward egalite and justice
the foundation stones for a sound democracy.
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#20. A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity.
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#22. The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
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#23. 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.
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#24. People keep saying I've changed. I used to be confrontational. But I'm - I haven't changed. It was - it's just that circumstances have changed.
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#25. If I was afraid of being killed, I would never speak out against the government.
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#26. When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.
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#27. I think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.
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#29. A lot of the roads, bridges, railways, and such are built through the use of forced labor, and that is causing the people great suffering. What we put into this in the form of human suffering is not worth what comes out of it.
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#30. If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.
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#31. Every government must consider the security of the country. That is just part of the responsibilities of any government. But true security can only come out of unity within a country where there are so many ethnic nationalities.
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#32. 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.
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#33. 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)
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#34. 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.
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#36. The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
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#37. Dissidents can't be dissidents forever; we are dissidents because we don't want to be dissidents.
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#38. When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.
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#39. Absolute peace in our world is an unattainable goal. But it is one towards which we must continue to journey, our eyes fixed on it as a traveller in a desert fixes his eyes on the one guiding star that will lead him to salvation.
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#40. I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.
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#41. It's good to know that the people of different countries are really concerned and involved in the movement to help Burma. I think in some ways it's better to have the people of the world on your side than the governments of the world, even if governments can be more effective in certain directions.
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#42. 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.
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#43. I look upon myself as a politician. That isn't a dirty word.
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#44. Unless there is free and fair competition, there can't be healthy economic development. And what we have in Burma now is not an open-market economy that allows free and fair competition, but a form of colonialism makes a few people very, very wealthy. It's what you would crony capitalism.
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#46. I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.
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#47. One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.
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#48. It is man's vision of a world fit for rational, civilized humanity which leads him to dare and to suffer to build societies free from want and fear. Concepts such as truth, justice and compassion cannot be dismissed as trite when these are often the only bulwarks which stand against ruthless power.
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#50. Freedom must be demanded and defended, by those who have been denied it and by those who are already free
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#51. I am prepared to talk with anyone. I have no personal grudge toward anybody.
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#52. I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.
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#53. What does Burma have to give the United States? We can give you the opportunity to engage with people who are ready and willing to change a society.
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#54. 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.
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#56. It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.
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#57. Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation.
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#58. I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying.
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#59. I could listen to the radio and I had access to books from time to time. Not all the time.
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#60. Regime is made up of people, so I do put faces to regimes and governments, so I feel that all human beings have the right to be given the benefit of the doubt, and they also have to be given the right to try to redeem themselves if they so wish.
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#61. I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.
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#62. I don't believe in people just hoping. We work for what we want. I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor, so we work to try and bring about the situation that is necessary for the country, and we are confident that we will get to the negotiation table at one time or another.
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#63. I think one must take responsibility for one's actions and one's decisions. But one should never take
one should never assume that everything that happens for the good is achieved by one's self alone.
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#64. The quintessential revolution is that of spirit. Without this, the forces which produce the inequalities of the old order will continue to operate.
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#65. 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.
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#67. Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in the world. Kindness, can change the lives of people.
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#68. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it.
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#69. With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.
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#70. You have a great many things to do when you are under house arrest. On the one hand, it is more comfortable than sitting in prison; on the other hand, you have to look after a household, which is strenuous under such circumstances.
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#73. I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians.
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#75. As long as there is no law in Burma, any individual here can be arrested at any time.
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#78. I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.
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#79. The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
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#80. You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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#81. I was surprised by the response of young people because there is a perception that those younger than the 1988 generation are not interested in politics.
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#82. 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.
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#83. How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?
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#84. I have been free for more than a month. Some people may think that that is long enough. Others may think that that is not quite long enough.
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#85. If you give in to intimidation, you'll go on being intimidated
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#87. I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.
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#89. I learned to work on a computer years before I was placed under house arrest. Fortunately I had two laptops when I was under house arrest - one an Apple and one a different operating system. I was very proud of that because I know how to use both systems.
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#90. You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.
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#91. Assuming the chairmanship of ASEAN isn't going to do anything about improving the lives of people.
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#92. If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways.
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#93. There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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#94. I was a prisoner, but I always felt free because I was not frightened So for me real freedom is freedom from fear.
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#95. I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
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#96. In the end, I think people prefer the good to win rather than the bad.
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#97. Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not "given", it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.
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#98. People ask me about what sacrifices I've made. I always answer: I've made no sacrifices, I've made choices.
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#99. The judiciary must be strengthened and released from political interference.
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