Quotes By Aung San Suu Kyi

I would like to have seen my sons growing up.

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

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

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

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.

No, I was never afraid.

There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.

I knew some of the army quite well.

History is always changing.

Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.

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.

People must work in unison.

It doesn't seem right for anybody to get so much attention.

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.

I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.

One should mature over 20 years.

I am prepared to talk with anyone. I have no personal grudge toward anybody.

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

Assuming the chairmanship of ASEAN isn't going to do anything about improving the lives of people.

I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.

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

I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.

If I was afraid of being killed, I would never speak out against the government.

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.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.

All repressive laws must be revoked, and laws introduced to protect the rights of the people.