Top 129 Quotes by Aung San Suu Kyi

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

I saw many aspects of the country which I needed to see in order that I might know what we need to do.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Dissidents can't be dissidents forever; we are dissidents because we don't want to be dissidents.