Top 160 Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

2. “If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

3. “Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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4. “People ask me about what sacrifices I’ve made. I always answer: I’ve made no sacrifices, I’ve made choices.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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5. “You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

6. “It is not a sacrifice, it’s a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn’t say it’s a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it.”

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

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8. “The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.”

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9. “Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.”

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10. “Challenges mean opportunities as well.”

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11. “Kindness can change the lives of people.”

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12. “Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not “given”, it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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13. “We must all work together if we are all to live together in unity and harmony.”

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

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15. “By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.”

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

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

— Aung San Suu Kyi

18. “To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

19. “I’m feeling a little delicate.”

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20. “You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.”

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21. “Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.”

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22. “It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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

— Aung San Suu Kyi

24. “It is not power that corrupts but fear.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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

— Aung San Suu Kyi

26. “Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in the world. Kindness, can change the lives of people.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

27. “My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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

— Aung San Suu Kyi

29. “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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30. “It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.”

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31. “I’ve always thought that the best solution for those who feel helpless is for them to help others.”

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32. “Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.”

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33. “We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.”

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

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35. “The peace of our world is indivisible. As long as negative forces are getting the better of positive forces anywhere, we are all at risk.”

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36. “Absolute peace in our world is an unattainable goal. But it is one towards which we must continue to journey, our eyes fixed on it as a traveller in a desert fixes his eyes on the one guiding star that will lead him to salvation.”

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37. “Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.”

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38. “If you give in to intimidation, you’ll go on being intimidated.”

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39. “I was a prisoner, but I always felt free because I was not frightened So for me real freedom is freedom from fear.”

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40. “For me, ‘revolution’ simply means radical change.”

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41. “The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.”

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42. “It is the love of ordinary people, in Burma, in Japan or anywhere else in the world, for justice and peace and freedom that is our surest defense against the forces of unreason and extremism...”

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43. “There is no intrinsic virtue to law and order unless “law” is equated with justice and “order” with the discipline of a people satisfied that justice has been done.”

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

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45. “We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.”

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46. “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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47. “Agreeing to disagree is a prerogative only of those who live under a democratic system.”

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48. “The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech.”

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49. “Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family.”

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50. “I don’t want Burma to be a basket case forever.”

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