Quotes By Aung San Suu Kyi

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.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

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.

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

In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.

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

You cannot compromise unless people talk to you.

I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.

Books always help.

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

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

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.

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.

In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.