"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."
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"War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages."
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"You must remember that democracy is made up not only of the executive, but the legislature and the judiciary."
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"If you give in to intimidation, you'll go on being intimidated"
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"To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict."
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"Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up."
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"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."
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"If you feel helpless, go help someone."
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"The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression', human rights should be protected by the rule of law. That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power."
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"When you feel helpless, help someone."
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"Unless there is free and fair competition, there can't be healthy economic development. And what we have in Burma now is not an open-market economy that allows free and fair competition, but a form of colonialism makes a few people very, very wealthy. It's what you would crony capitalism."
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"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."
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"I don't want Burma to be a basket case forever."
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"Perhaps Singapore could learn from us a more relaxed way of life."
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"You may not think about politics, but politics think about you."
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"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."
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"We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation."
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"The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation."
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"Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent."
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"Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery."
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