To abolish fear correctly is to nurture law and order. Aung San Suu Kyi More Quotes by Aung San Suu Kyi More Quotes From Aung San Suu Kyi The 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 stage development world If you're feeling helpless, help someone. Aung San Suu Kyi badass motivational inspirational If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help. Aung San Suu Kyi important people art If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it's stalemate. There's a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like. Aung San Suu Kyi games mean moving There is nothing to compare with the courage of ordinary people whose names are unknown and whose sacrifices pass unnoticed. The courage that dares without recognition, without the protection of media attention, is a courage that humbles and inspires and reaffirms our faith in humanity. Aung San Suu Kyi sacrifice names courage If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith. Aung San Suu Kyi optimism have-faith want The important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do. Aung San Suu Kyi important should action When I was in London a Kachin youth criticized me for not condemning the Burmese military for their offensive in Kachin State. I answered "condemnation is not the solution." We want to build reconciliation, not condemnation. Aung San Suu Kyi london military want Those who have to face persistent political persecution become highly politicized. Our lives take on a rhythm different from those who, on waking up in the morning, do not need to wonder who might have been arrested during the night and what further acts of blatant injustice might be committed against our people later during the day. Our antennae become highly sensitive to vibrations barely noticed by those whose everyday existence is removed from political struggle. Aung San Suu Kyi struggle morning night 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 iron crush men My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves. Aung San Suu Kyi top-priorities priorities people You may not think about politics, but politics think about you. Aung San Suu Kyi may thinking 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. Aung San Suu Kyi common-sense self men I learned to work on a computer years before I was placed under house arrest. Fortunately I had two laptops when I was under house arrest - one an Apple and one a different operating system. I was very proud of that because I know how to use both systems. Aung San Suu Kyi apples two years 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 nations government goal Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it. Aung San Suu Kyi opportunity people thinking When you feel helpless, help someone. Aung San Suu Kyi helpless feels helping More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves – they can't depend on a particular person, ie me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world. Aung San Suu Kyi want people world Please use your freedom to promote ours. Aung San Suu Kyi human-rights freedom use 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 our-world peace long
