Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

When you can't ask a question of your leaders anymore, that gets scary.

A functioning police state needs no police.

Soviet repression taught the Russians that hope and trust are dangerous, inimical, and treacherous

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always legislated some form of realism.

I think the most destructive thing is fear: when people don't want to say what they think.

Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.

For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening.

In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.

The Thought Police: To censor and protect.

The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.

The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

The worst thing our Communists could do to us, and the thing we have most to fear from their activities, is that we should become like them.

Silence coerced by law—the argument of force in its worst form.

The National Socialist Party will prevent in the future, by force if necessary, all meetings and lectures which are likely to exercise a depressing influence on the German state.

Some must speak and some must be still so that we can listen to the voices of the just and the silence of the sinners.

Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered Expression

The communist experiment should never be forgotten otherwise it may be repeated.

The silence of peoples is something kings should study.