Quotes from Aung San Suu Kyi

One should mature over 20 years.

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.

We are not out to boast that there is so much percentage of growth per year. Our real concern is how it affects the lives of people, the future of our country.

There is so much that we need to do for our country. I don't think that we can afford to wait.

I think when the people in Burma stop thinking about whether or not they're free, it'll mean that they're free.

It could achieve a lot if everyone in Burma could stop saying something is good if it is not good, or say something is just if it is not just.

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

Fires of suffering and strife are raging around the world.

Suffering degrades, embitters and enrages.

I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.

My 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.

After all it was my father who founded the Burmese army and I do have a sense of warmth towards the Burmese army.

History is always changing.

People keep saying I've changed. I used to be confrontational. But I'm - I haven't changed. It was - it's just that circumstances have changed.

When we think of the state of the economy, we are not thinking in terms of money flow. We are thinking in terms of the effect on everyday lives of people.

If you're feeling helpless, help someone.

It is part of the unceasing human endeavor to prove that the spirit of man can transcend the flaws of his own nature.

Every 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.

We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?

Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.

There can be no civil peace without the rule of law.

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