Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

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Aung San Suu Kyi

Profession : Activist

Birth : June 19, 1945

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

Aung San Suu Kyi

I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I am prepared to talk with anyone. I have no personal grudge toward anybody.

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

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.

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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.

Aung San Suu Kyi

If I was afraid of being killed, I would never speak out against the government.

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I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment.

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One should mature over 20 years.

Aung San Suu Kyi

It could achieve a lot if everyone in Burma could stop saying something is good if it is not good, or say something is just if it is not just.

Aung San Suu Kyi

When we think of the state of the economy, we are not thinking in terms of money flow. We are thinking in terms of the effect on everyday lives of people.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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

Aung San Suu Kyi

I knew some of the army quite well.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.

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I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.

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I look forward to trying the Internet.

Aung San Suu Kyi

We always think that everybody can do a little bit more, if not a lot more.

Aung San Suu Kyi

If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it's stalemate. There's a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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