People ask me about what sacrifices I've made. I always answer: I've made no sacrifices, I've made choices.
Aung San Suu KyiRead
If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.
Interpretation
Resolving deep conflicts requires willingness to compromise on both sides.
Aung San Suu Kyi highlights the importance of compromise in ending long-standing conflicts. To achieve peace and resolve disputes that have persisted over time, all parties involved must be open to negotiation and flexible in their positions rather than holding rigidly to their demands.
In practice
In a team meeting focused on resolving project disagreements, this quote can remind members of the importance of compromise.
People ask me about what sacrifices I've made. I always answer: I've made no sacrifices, I've made choices.
The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.
This was the way I was brought up to think of politics, that politics was to do with ethics, it was to do with responsibility, it was to do with service, so I think I was conditioned to think like that, and I'm too old to change now.
My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.
Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.
I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.
Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
I feel that we don't have the luxury of asking whether or not the Palestinians and Israelis can achieve peace. I think we have to just ask the question of when and how.
Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.
A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.
Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.
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