Quotes from Aung San Suu Kyi

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

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

Confidence-building is not something that can go on forever. If it goes on forever then it becomes counterproductive.

I don't want Burma to be a basket case forever.

Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.

Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.

If you're feeling helpless, help someone.

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued.

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.

The first six years I was kept totally alone. The last six years I had two people staying in the house. The first six years really trained me very well.

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.

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.