If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

If ideas and beliefs are to be denied validity outside the geographical and cultural bounds of their origin, Buddhism would be confined to north India, Christianity to a narrow tract in the Middle East and Islam to Arabia.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

If you're feeling helpless, help someone. ”― Aung San Suu Kyi (from Freedom from Fear)

— Aung San Suu Kyi

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued."(From a speech read on video on August 31, 1995, before the NGO Forum on Women, Beijing, China)

— Aung San Suu Kyi

I sometimes think if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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

— Aung San Suu Kyi

I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

— Aung San Suu Kyi