Aung San Suu Kyi quotes

9 of famous Aung San Suu Kyi quotes 

on peace and politics to empower the leader in you.

Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author and Nobel laureate who was sentenced to four years of imprisonment for incitement and breaching coronavirus regulations. However, the ruling military junta leaders have reduced the term of her detention to two years on grounds of humanity in her current location.

1. ON CREATING PEACE

“My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace – it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.”

2. ON PHILANTHROPY

“By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.”

3. ON WIELDING POWER

“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

 

4. ON FREEDOM

“Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say ‘That’s it.’ Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.”

5. ON INCITING CHANGE

“More people, especially young people, are realizing that if they want change, they’ve got to go about it themselves – they can’t depend on a particular person, i.e. me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what’s going on all over the world.”

6. ON WORKING HARD

“If you do nothing you get nothing.”

7. ON BEING UNBREAKABLE

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

8. ON THE POWER OF USING YOUR VOICE

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

9. ON REVOLUTION

“A revolution simply means great change, significant change, and that’s how I’m defining it – great change for the better, brought about through non-violent means.”

Aung San Suu Kyi suffered years of isolation but used her loneliness to meditate and grow. Her struggle and fight portray the resilience and strength of a true leader.

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