Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

The future belongs to freedom, not to fear.

Fear is the greatest form of oppression. The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to its fullest!

Do not be wedded forever to fear, yoked eternally to brutishness.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.

I do not accept being a prisoner of fear. Of Communism, of fascism. That, one can bear. But of one's fear. No. Never.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

A totalitarian society makes enormous demands on the courage of men, and a partially totalitarian society makes even greater demands because the general anxiety is greater.

We shall be intimidated by no government, however powerful.

You can't shut me up with your cynicism. I warn you- you must realize in time that you are not a mighty despot before whom everyone trembles. I do not tremble before you, I will fight you if you force me to it.

Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom.

Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear.

Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven't the courage to stand up for the views which they themselves profess to hold.

People almost never give up their freedoms — including, at times, the right to kill and impoverish one another — unless forced to do so; and virtually the only force strong enough to bring this about has been defeat in war or fear that such a defeat is imminent.

You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.

Fear is the first obstacle we have to get over in our battle for freedom

Failure is ultimately very liberating. Once you come out the other side of it, you just might have faced one of your biggest fears and lived. The other side of failure is a big elimination of fear of failure. Trust me, that is an amazing gift.

You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

Fear is a dangerous thing. Once it is sanctioned by the state there is no telling where it might lead. It is always a short path to walk from being suspicious of our fellow citizens to taking actions to restrict their liberty.

When we face our fears, we can find our freedom.

A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.

We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.

I said to myself, Malala, you must be brave. You must not be afraid of anyone. You are only trying to get an education. You are not committing a crime.

They can't hurt me. Sure, they can crush you and kill you. They can lay you out on 42nd and Broadway and put hoses on you and flush you in the sewers and put you on the subway and carry you out to Coney island and bury you on the Ferris wheel. But I refuse to sit here and worry about dying.