Top 129 Quotes by Aung San Suu Kyi

I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.

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

If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.

If you do nothing you get nothing.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.

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

Fires of suffering and strife are raging around the world.

Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation.

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