Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

The defeats and victories for the people at the top aren't defeats and victories for the people at the bottom.

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.

Justice often means taking power from some who have it and giving it to some who do not.

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty often have a share in their misfortunes.

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

People who bear the brunt of dominant economic and military power have always resented, even hated, the subordination they experience while admiring grudgingly the institutions that sustain the subordination.

If there is a class war—and there is—it is important that it should be handled with subtlety and skill. ... it is not freedom that Conservatives want; what they want is the sort of freedom that will maintain existing inequalities or restore lost ones.

Oppression is the essence of power.

From the day I was born, there has always existed a huge disconnect between the stories often told by the elite and those I hear from ordinary people about our country although we live in the places; and witness the same events around us.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.