Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes - Page 8

Quotes about:

• What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Political, Suffering, Prison

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  Believe, Thinking, People

  4 Copy quote

• If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Long, Want, Compromise

  Interview with Scott Stearns, www.voanews.com. September 18, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

• I feel that the BBC World Service is not as versatile as it used to be - or perhaps I'm not listening at the right times.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Listening, World, Used

  4 Copy quote

• A more significant phase should mean serious political dialogue.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Mean, Political, Phases

  7 Copy quote

• I don't want Burma to be a basket case forever.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Forever, Want, Baskets

  BCUK Interview, burmacampaign.org.uk. June 17, 2002.

  8 Copy quote

• Freedom must be demanded and defended, by those who have been denied it and by those who are already free.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Has Beens, Denied

  Open letter by 12 Nobel Laureates, June 15, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

• Some believe that the only way to remove the authoritarian regime and replace it with a democratic one is through violent means. I would like to set the precedent of political change through political settlement, not through violence.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Believe, Mean, Political

  4 Copy quote

• If 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

  Buddhism, Ideas, Islam

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1995). “Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings”, p.183, Penguin UK

  4 Copy quote

• Art history is always changing too.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Interview with Elizabeth Gettinger, Anne Steptoe, Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent, www.doaks.org. July 16, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

• It cannot be doubted that in most countries today women, in comparison to men, still remain underprivileged.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Country, Men, Today

  7 Copy quote

• Absolute peace in our world is an unattainable goal. But it is one towards which we must continue to journey, our eyes fixed on it as a traveller in a desert fixes his eyes on the one guiding star that will lead him to salvation.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Peace, Stars, Eye

  Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. June 16, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

• In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  People, Used, Frightened

  4 Copy quote

• In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Optimistic

  4 Copy quote

• It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Men, Self, Redemption

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). “Freedom from fear: and other writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

  12 Copy quote

• The Nobel Peace Prize opened up a door in my heart.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Heart, Doors, Nobel Peace Prize

  "Aung San Suu Kyi accepts Nobel peace prize" by Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.

  16 Copy quote

• War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  War, Done, Arena

  Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, www.nobelprize.org. June 16, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Long, Listening, Pieces

  4 Copy quote

• The judiciary in Burma is not independent. It's widely known, everybody knows that.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Independent, Burma, Judiciary

  7 Copy quote

• Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Real, Community, Political

  7 Copy quote

• When I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me - I listened.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  House, Spokes, House Arrest

  "Aung San Suu Kyi to deliver BBC Radio 4 Reith lectures" by Juliette Garside, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

• At this age, I should be leading a quiet life.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Birthday, Age, Aging

  5 Copy quote

• One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Country, Democracy, Important

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Attitude, Stills, Arrested

  4 Copy quote

• The provision of basic material needs is not sufficient to make minority groups and indigenous peoples feel they are truly part of the greater national entity. For that they have to be confident that they too have an active role to play in shaping the destiny of the state that demands their allegiance.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Destiny, Play, Groups

  4 Copy quote

Page 8 of 12

First

← Prev

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin