Political Sayings

The quest for democracy in Burma is the struggle of a people to live whole, meaningful lives as free and equal members of the world community.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

What the government wants is slaves.

The very idea of the fabrication of a new government is enough to fill us with disgust and horror.

All government is a trust.

Democracy is the best revenge.

Deliberative democracy requires a public sphere that is free from domination.

For the oppressed, the present is so overwhelming that the future is often unthinkable.

The devotee is a dog, and the master a butcher. The dog follows the butcher, and the butcher kills the dog.

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

I’m not a politician. I’m a writer.

I've never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

I'm a beat, not a beatnik. I'm a generation, not a fad. I'm a movement, not a trend. I'm a revolution, not a rebellion. I'm a.

I'm a sex maniac. I'm a pervert. I'm a homosexual. I'm a drug addict. I'm a communist. I'm a Jew. I'm all those things.

The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are more likely to get elected than leaders.

For God, we know, hath bid the man to rule: But in that right, not with a tyrannous hand.