Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes About Passion

Quotes about: Passion

• The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Education, Peace, Passion

  Opening Keynote Address at NGO Forum on Women in Beijing, China, August 31, 1995.

• While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident that the possession of a significant surplus of material goods has never been a guarantee against covetousness, rapacity and the infinite variety of vice and pain which spring from such passions. Indeed, it could be argued that the unrelenting compulsion of those who already have much to acquire even more has generated greater injustice, immorality and wretchedness than the cumulative effect of the struggles of the severely underprivileged to better their lot.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Pain, Spring, Struggle

• 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

  Military, Fall, Passion

  "Freed Myanmar Activist: Fight For Human Rights Continues". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 15, 2010.

• The act of willingly subtracting from one's own limited store of the good and the agreeable for the sake of adding to that of others reflects the understanding that individual happiness needs a base broader than the mere satisfaction of selfish passions. From there, it is not such a large step to the realization that respecting the susceptibilities and rights of others is as important as defending one's own susceptibilities and rights if civilized society is to be safeguarded.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Selfish, Passion, Individual Happiness

  Aung San Suu Kyi, University of Oxford. Refugee Studies Programme (1993). “Towards a true refuge”

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