Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.

Standing armies are the oppressive instruments for governing the people.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime.

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer space.

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

Our political life is closed, and our freedoms usurped, and our people are oppressed, and fearful… if you don’t say what the ruler wants, you’re exiled beyond the sun.

The record of Arab regimes is disgraceful and outrageous … worse than that of the occupier or the colonialist.

… so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

Most governments are designed for the purposes of oppression and personal ambition.

Extensive and organized power over large populations does not suffice to make a nation

In Turkey, public opinion is nil and the people always obey any effective executive force, and obey nothing else…. The perpetuation of Turkish rule is the perpetuation of infamy.

To trample democracy with one’s feet and to give power to a single man over almost eighty million people is so terrible that one can very probably tremble over the events which will come here.

I am inclined to believe dictators. Not to is dangerous.

If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish. If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish.

The government assures the people that they are in danger from the invasion of another nation, or from foes in their midst, and that the only way to escape this danger is by the slavish obedience of the people to their government. This fact is seen most prominently during revolutions and dictatorships, but it exists always and everywhere that the power of the government exists.

The people always have some champion who they set over them and nurse into greatness …. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears, he is a protector.