A lot of the roads, bridges, railways, and such are built through the use of forced labor, and that is causing the people great suffering. What we put into this in the form of human suffering is not worth what comes out of it.

I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.

It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.

The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.

Some believe that the only way to remove the authoritarian regime and replace it with a democratic one is through violent means. I would like to set the precedent of political change through political settlement, not through violence.

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

So, I think that for the authorities to say now that calling for sanctions will prevent dialogue is a ploy to stop us from supporting sanctions. It has to be the other way around: dialogue first, then we stop our call for sanctions, because sanctions make people understand that you cannot exercise repression and at the same time expect international support.