Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.

To be violent is the ultimate laziness. War always seems a great effort, but it is the easy way. And false non-violence is also an idol.

Violence is my last option.

Force should never be the first answer, but sometimes it is the only answer.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that

Repel force by force

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

Those who were not taught to fight, have naturally inclined in favor of any other mode of settling differences rather than that of fighting.

They should not be knocked down with a bludgeon. They should have their threats cut with a feather.

If you seek peace, we do not want War. But if you want War, we will accept it unhesitatingly.

Desperate times require desperate measures. Violence is not only the answer. It is the only answer.

If it's to be a bloodbath, let it be now. Appeasement is not the answer.

There is a difference between myself and some of the peace people in Europe: whereas they think that the ultimate evil in the world is war, I think the ultimate evil in the world is aggression, and aggression sometimes must be repelled by force.

I can't force a guy to fight.

Fighting is not something that I enjoy doing. It's something that I do that I feel that I have to do.

I don't think there's any way that war can have a place in peace. I think that peace is the active and difficult resistance to the temptation of war; it is the prerogative and the obligation of the injured. Peace is something that has to be vigilantly maintained; it is a vigilance, and it involves temptation, and it does not mean we as human beings are not aggressive. This is a mistaken way of understanding non-violence.

I don't like to fight.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.

Peace is produced by war.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.