Quotes from Aung San Suu Kyi

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.

Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity.

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.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

Whatever help we may want from the international community now or in the future, we want to make sure that this help is tailored to help our people to help themselves.

When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.

I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.

There is no hope without endeavor.

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.

The French say that to part is to die a little. To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity.

Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions.

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.

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.

You cannot compromise unless people talk to you.

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.

It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.

Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world... Kindness can change the lives of people.

Kindness can change the lives of people.

Sanctions are not really an economic weapon.

We will not change in matters of policy until such time as dialogue has begun.

Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.