Quotes By Aung San Suu Kyi

Fires of suffering and strife are raging around the world.

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

Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.

The best way to help Burma is to empower the people of Burma, to help us have enough self-confidence to obtain what we want for ourselves.

Every government must consider the security of the country. That is just part of the responsibilities of any government. But true security can only come out of unity within a country where there are so many ethnic nationalities.

The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.

People must work in unison.

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 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.

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

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.

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'm not the only one working for democracy in Burma - there are so many people who have worked for it because they believe that this is the only way we can maintain the dignity of our people.

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

I'm feeling a little delicate.

I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.

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.

The judiciary must be strengthened and released from political interference.

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

I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment.

One wants to be together with one's family. That's what families are about.

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

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.

I don't think I have achieved anything that I can really be proud of.

In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.

If you do nothing you get nothing.

I look forward to trying the Internet.

Suffering degrades, embitters and enrages.

I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying.