01c. 1945 ADIf you're feeling helpless, help someone. ”― Aung San Suu Kyi (from Freedom from Fear)Aung San Suu Kyi / quote ↗
02c. 1945 ADSome of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery.Aung San Suu Kyi / quote ↗
03c. 1945 ADWithin a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. Fear of imprisonment, fear of torture, fear of death, fear of losing friends, family, property or means of livelihood, fear of poverty, fear of isolation, fear of failure. 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. It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.Aung San Suu Kyi / quote ↗
04c. 1945 ADIt 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.Aung San Suu Kyi / quote ↗
05c. 1945 ADGovernment leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.Aung San Suu Kyi / quote ↗
06c. 1945 ADTo 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.Aung San Suu Kyi / quote ↗
08c. 1945 ADIn 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)Aung San Suu Kyi / quote ↗
09c. 1945 ADThere 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.Aung San Suu Kyi / quote ↗
10c. 1945 ADEvery 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.Aung San Suu Kyi / quote ↗
11c. 1945 ADIf ideas and beliefs are to be denied validity outside the geographical and cultural bounds of their origin, Buddhism would be confined to north India, Christianity to a narrow tract in the Middle East and Islam to Arabia.Aung San Suu Kyi / quote ↗
12c. 1945 ADThe search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems which lie at the root of social and economic difficulties and a lack of resolve in grappling with them.Aung San Suu Kyi / quote ↗
13c. 1945 ADMy top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.Aung San Suu Kyi / quote ↗
14c. 1945 ADIt is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.Aung San Suu Kyi / quote ↗
15c. 1945 ADMy 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.Aung San Suu Kyi / quote ↗
16c. 1945 ADMy 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 / quote ↗
17c. 1945 ADI do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.Aung San Suu Kyi / quote ↗
21c. 1945 ADEven one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.Aung San Suu Kyi / quote ↗
22c. 1945 ADSince we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.Aung San Suu Kyi / quote ↗
23c. 1945 ADThe 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 / quote ↗
24c. 1945 ADThe 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 / quote ↗
