Suu Kyi Quotes
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If you give in to intimidation, you'll go on being intimidated
— Aung San Suu Kyi
War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.
— 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
One prisoner of conscience is one too many.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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
I look forward to trying the Internet.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
It cannot be doubted that in most countries today women, in comparison to men, still remain underprivileged.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
As long as there is no law in Burma, any individual here can be arrested at any time.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
I think when the people in Burma stop thinking about whether or not they're free, it'll mean that they're free.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.
— 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
There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
I'm feeling a little delicate.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.
— 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
We always think that everybody can do a little bit more, if not a lot more.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
I was a prisoner, but I always felt free because I was not frightened So for me real freedom is freedom from fear.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
The judiciary in Burma is not independent. It's widely known, everybody knows that.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
I would like to have seen my sons growing up.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
One wants to be together with one's family. That's what families are about.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
If you are feeling helpless, help someone.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
I've always said that the more coordinated the efforts of the international community are, the better it will be for democracy in Burma.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
No, I was never afraid.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Please use your freedom to promote ours.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
It doesn't seem right for anybody to get so much attention.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
I don't want Burma to be a basket case forever.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
When you think of Buddhism, you're likely to think of peace and tranquility.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
I don't want to be president, but I want to be free to decide whether or not I want to be president of this country.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
I am prepared to talk with anyone. I have no personal grudge toward anybody.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Sanctions are not really an economic weapon.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
The peace of our world is indivisible. As long as negative forces are getting the better of positive forces anywhere, we are all at risk.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
I look upon myself as a politician. That isn't a dirty word.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
One should mature over 20 years.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
You cannot compromise unless people talk to you.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
People must work in unison.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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
It is part of the unceasing human endeavor to prove that the spirit of man can transcend the flaws of his own nature.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
I'm rather inclined to liking people.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
A more significant phase should mean serious political dialogue.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
If you feel helpless, go help someone.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
At this age, I should be leading a quiet life.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
I worry that even those who want to reform are not quite sure how to go about it. There is so much to be done.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
As we strive to teach others we must have the humility to acknowledge that we too still have much to learn.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.
— 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
When you feel helpless, help someone.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Agreeing to disagree is a prerogative only of those who live under a democratic system.
— 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
In the end, I think people prefer the good to win rather than the bad.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
— 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
If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
I could listen to the radio and I had access to books from time to time. Not all the time.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
If I were the blushing kind, I would blush to be called a hero.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Dissidents can't be dissidents forever; we are dissidents because we don't want to be dissidents.
— 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
I've always been strongly on the side of non-violence.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Sanctions and boycotts would be tied to serious political dialogue.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Suffering degrades, embitters and enrages.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
I knew some of the army quite well.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech.
— Aung San Suu Kyi