Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“If I were the blushing kind, I would blush to be called a hero.”

“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.”

“Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.”

“To be forgotten, is to die a little.”