Burma Quotes - Page 2

• In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people - the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.

  George Orwell

  Numbers, People, Important

  "Shooting an Elephant" (1936)

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• I've got enough money to live where I want, but I don't want to move.Go out and have sexual adventures in Burma.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Moving, Adventure, Want

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

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• The best way to deal with AIDS is through education. So we need a really widespread AIDS education program. In fact, what we need in Burma is education of all kinds - political, economic, and medical. AIDS education would be just part of a whole program for education, which is so badly needed in our country.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Country, Political, Way

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• There have been many claims that [U.S.] sanctions have hurt Burma economically, but I did not agree with that point of view. If you look at reports by the IMF, for example, they make quite clear that the economic impact on Burma has not been that great. But I think the political impact has been very great and that has helped us in our struggle for democracy.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Hurt, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: www.voanews.com

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• Give me fifty DC-3's and the Japanese can have the Burma Road.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Giving, Fifty, Aviation

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• We have been making constant efforts, all the time, to start dialogue with the SLORC, but you know it takes two. We don't want a monologue. We would like a substantive political dialogue among the SLORC, political leaders including myself, and leaders of ethnic groups-exactly as stipulated in the U.N. General Assembly resolution on Burma.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Two, Effort, Leader

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• Burma evoked the lost Kenyan soldiers who served in the war. You never hear about them. There were a significant number of casualties, men who never came back home. But they're never commemorated.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  War, Home, Men

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think corporations should give more attention to this suffering and should wait to invest until there is a responsible government in Burma. I do not think it is a good idea to separate economics from politics; in fact, I do not think economics can be separated from politics It's quite understandable that many business concerns think only about their own profits It's up to the public to put as much pressure as it can on these companies, through shareholder resolutions and public actions.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Thinking, Ideas, Responsible Government

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• I can say with absolute confidence that the general public of Burma would be very little affected, if at all, by sanctions. So far, the kind of investments that have come in have benefited the public very little indeed. If you have been in Burma long enough, you will be aware of the fact that a small elite has developed that is extremely wealthy. Perhaps they would be affected, but my concern is not with them but with the general public.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Long, Littles, Facts

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• Unless there is free and fair competition, there can't be healthy economic development. And what we have in Burma now is not an open-market economy that allows free and fair competition, but a form of colonialism makes a few people very, very wealthy. It's what you would crony capitalism.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  People, Healthy, Competition

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• There are no Rohingya among the races [in Burma]. We only have Bengalis who were brought for farming [during British rule].

  Thein Sein

  Race, Farming, British

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• But you'll notice, you will notice that Russia and China, invariably at the United Nations, move to block American action, to repress or hem in or punish other kinds of outlaw. Who stands behind Mugabi at the United Nations? Russia and China do. Who tried successfully to prevent the United Nations from speaking with one voice on its most signal violation of its resolutions, Iraq? Russia and China, again. North Korea the same. Burma the same.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Block, Moving, Russia

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I will not leave Burma until the cross is planted here forever.

  Adoniram Judson

  Forever, Crosses

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• That cyclone in Burma? That was just me doing the dance to that annoying ass song.

  Zach Braff

  Song, Cyclones, Annoying

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• By turns sad and uplifting, Life in the Valley of Death tells the amazing tale of Alan Rabinowitz's courageous and spirited efforts to protect Burma's (Myanmar's) remaining tigers and establish the Hukawng Valley Reserve. It is hard to imagine a more passionate or exciting account of today's conservation challenges, or a more thoughtful rendering of life, death, and politics in Burma's most remote corners.

  Thant Myint-U

  Uplifting, Thoughtful, Effort

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• The problem in Burma is the problem in Egypt, the problem you refer to in Yemen, and the problem in a lot of these countries in the world: that you can get stuck in the process of transition, in what’s been called a competitive authoritarian… a pseudo democratic regime.

  Larry Diamond

  Country, Egypt, Transition

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• For the past 10 years I have had the interesting experience of observing the development of Parkinson's syndrome on myself. As a matter of fact, this condition does not come under my special medical interests or I would have had it solved long ago. … The condition has its compensations: one is not yanked from interesting work to go to the jungles of Burma ... one avoids all kinds of deadly committee meetings, etc.

  Fuller Albright

  Past, Long Ago, Years

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• The judiciary in Burma is not independent. It's widely known, everybody knows that.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Independent, Judiciary, Knows

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• How about Burma, Somalia, Afghanistan, Libya, our streets, our neighborhoods, our own minds. We don't have to look far - and we should look far as well.

  Joan Halifax

  Mind, Looks, Libya

  Source: zenpeacemakers.org

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• What does Burma have to give the United States? We can give you the opportunity to engage with people who are ready and willing to change a society.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Opportunity, People, Giving

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• Everyone's a singer now, thanks to karaoke, for better and for much worse. But the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma.

  Alan Bishop

  Band, Thailand, Karaoke

  "An Interview with Alan Bishop". believermag.com. July 1, 2008.

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• In fact, it is the dictatorship's policy that isolates the people of Burma while it reaches out to different countries every year and opens new embassies around the world. It is the dictatorship's policy that kills civilians and makes people poor. As long as the dictatorship is in power, foreign trade and investment in Burma will not benefit people. Instead, it will end up fueling the oppression in Burma.

  Zoya Phan

  Country, Years, Long

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I urge North Koreas leaders to reflect on Burmas experience. While the work of reform is ongoing, Burma has already broken out of isolation and opened the door to a far better future for its people.

  Thomas E. Donilon

  Doors, Korea, People

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• It's good to know that the people of different countries are really concerned and involved in the movement to help Burma. I think in some ways it's better to have the people of the world on your side than the governments of the world, even if governments can be more effective in certain directions.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Country, Thinking, Your Side

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• It is the love of ordinary people, in Burma, in Japan or anywhere else in the world, for justice and peace and freedom that is our surest defense against the forces of unreason and extremism.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Japan, People, Justice

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1997). “Letters From Burma:”

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