Aung San Quotes

• I am well aware that there is such a great craving in man for heroism and the heroic, and that hero worship forms not a small motif in his complex. I am also aware that, unless man believes in his own heroism and the heroism of others, he cannot achieve much or great things. We must, however, take proper care that we do not make a fetish of this cult of hero-worship, for then we will turn ourselves into votaries of false gods and prophets.

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  Hero   Believe   Men  

  Presidential address to the first Congress of the AFPFL, January 20, 1946.

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• It would be consistent and proper for us to join the war for democratic freedom, only if we would likewise be assured that democratic freedom in theory as well as in practice.

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  War   Practice   Would Be  

  Address delivered at the meeting of East and West Association held on August 29, 1945, at the City Hall of Rangoon,

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• Those of us who decided to work for democracy in Burma made our choice in the conviction that the danger of standing up for basic human rights in a repressive society was preferable to the safety of a quiescent life in servitude

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  Rights   Safety   Choices  

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• I always think challenges are interesting and help you to become a better person.

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  Thinking   Interesting   Challenges  

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• Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution. Let us join hands to try to create a peaceful world where we can sleep in security and wake in happiness.

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  Sleep   Hands   Peaceful  

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• I think this is the case in the great majority of authoritarian states: on the surface, because of repression, everything seems frozen, but when the sun comes out and the ice melts, you find that there was a lot of life underneath all along.

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  Thinking   Ice   Majority  

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• We cannot bank our hopes on possibilities. We must put our trust in ourselves, in our capabilities and efforts and strength and preparations not only for our success but even to avoid our own defeat.

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  Effort   Preparation   Defeat  

  Presidential address to the AFPFL Supreme Council Session, August, 1946.

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• I could not, as my father's daughter, remain indifferent to all that was going on.

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  Daughter   Father   Indifferent  

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• Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day.

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  Rights   Order   Deny  

  Acceptance message for the 1990 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, July 1991.

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