Top 160 Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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

— Aung San Suu Kyi

53. “One should mature over 20 years.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

54. “It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

55. “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.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

56. “Please use your freedom to promote ours.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

57. “We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mystery over yourself. It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

58. “Regimented minds cannot grasp the concept of confrontation as an open exchange of major differences with a view to settlement through genuine dialogue.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

59. “I think one must take responsibility for one’s actions and one’s decisions. But one should never take – one should never assume that everything that happens for the good is achieved by one’s self alone.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

60. “You have a great many things to do when you are under house arrest. On the one hand, it is more comfortable than sitting in prison; on the other hand, you have to look after a household, which is strenuous under such circumstances.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

61. “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.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

62. “I would like to have seen my sons growing up.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

63. “Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

64. “Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

65. “Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

66. “One person alone can’t do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

67. “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.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

68. “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.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

69. “After all it was my father who founded the Burmese army and I do have a sense of warmth towards the Burmese army.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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

— Aung San Suu Kyi

71. “The quintessential revolution is that of spirit. Without this, the forces which produce the inequalities of the old order will continue to operate.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

72. “I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

73. “To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

74. “In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren’t frightened as they used to be.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

75. “Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

76. “There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

77. “Freedom must be demanded and defended, by those who have been denied it and by those who are already free.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

78. “The judiciary must be strengthened and released from political interference.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

79. “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.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

80. “It is part of the unceasing human endeavor to prove that the spirit of man can transcend the flaws of his own nature.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

81. “A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man’s self-respect and inherent human dignity.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

82. “I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

83. “Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

84. “One prisoner of conscience is one too many.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

85. “Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

86. “The French say that to part is to die a little. To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

87. “In a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. Never let fear prevent you from doing right.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

88. “War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

89. “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.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

90. “That’s not how politics works – sometimes things move in a rather imperceptible way. There are no fireworks, and then comes a time when change comes unexpectedly. Sometimes change comes with a lot of fireworks, but not always.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

91. “Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

92. “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.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

93. “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.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

94. “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.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

95. “The root of a nation’s misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

96. “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.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

97. “When I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me – I listened.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

98. “I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

99. “Assuming the chairmanship of ASEAN isn’t going to do anything about improving the lives of people.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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

— Aung San Suu Kyi