I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.
From 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.
I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.
Assuming the chairmanship of ASEAN isn't going to do anything about improving the lives of people.
I would like to have seen my sons growing up.
To be forgotten, is to die a little.
For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.
I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.
I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma, we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises.
Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
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