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My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness. ↗

— Thomas Kyd

#darkness #lump #minutes #pair #son

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#belligerent #contested #even #goal #government

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#based #cultural #democratic #governments #human

I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#certain #cultural #different #environment #even

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#based #definition #destroy #discrimination #does

I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#enough #feel #i #i think #inner

All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#nothing #original #power #reason #regimes

As long as there is no law in Burma, any individual here can be arrested at any time. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#arrested #burma #here #individual #law

...this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#history #religion #science #similarity #statement

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#me #means #radical #radical change #revolution