Aung San Suu Kyi Zitate auf Englisch

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Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

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There is so much that we need to do for our country. I don't think that we can afford to wait.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.

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My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.

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We always think that everybody can do a little bit more, if not a lot more.

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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

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

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We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves.

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The Nobel Peace Prize opened up a door in my heart.

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

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

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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.

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

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The people have given me their support; they have given me their trust and confidence. My colleagues have suffered a lot in order to give me support. I do not look upon my life as a sacrifice at all.

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I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.

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Fires of suffering and strife are raging around the world.

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If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.

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One should mature over 20 years.

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It could achieve a lot if everyone in Burma could stop saying something is good if it is not good, or say something is just if it is not just.

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I learned to work on a computer years before I was placed under house arrest. Fortunately I had two laptops when I was under house arrest - one an Apple and one a different operating system. I was very proud of that because I know how to use both systems.

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People keep saying I've changed. I used to be confrontational. But I'm - I haven't changed. It was - it's just that circumstances have changed.

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I'm feeling a little delicate.

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To be forgotten, is to die a little.

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No, I was never afraid.

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I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.

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The judiciary must be strengthened and released from political interference.

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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.

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Suffering degrades, embitters and enrages.

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With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.

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My attitude is, do as much as I can while I'm free. And if I'm arrested I'll still do as much as I can.

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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.

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