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
I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
Interpretation
Solitude can lead to a sense of freedom and autonomy over one's time.
This quote suggests that being alone can provide an individual with a unique sense of freedom, as solitude allows for greater personal autonomy and control over how one chooses to spend their time. In a world often filled with distractions and obligations, solitude can offer a valuable opportunity for self-reflection and independence, enabling one to pursue personal interests and passions without external pressures or interruptions.
In practice
During a motivational speech about self-discovery and independence.
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.
If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.
Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.
The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.
Reproach is infinite, and knows no end So voluble a weapon is the tongue; Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail For every man has equal strength to rail.
One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative, but revolutionary.
I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until evidence is too strong for my tenacity.
The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.
All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.
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