I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.
BENAZIR BHUTTOPakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.
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The Orange Revolution in Ukraine is a good example of how people, who are robbed of their right to vote, can protest and put an end to dictatorship.
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I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.
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Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren’t our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?
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Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
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Being in jail is difficult too because it’s like being in a graveyard, you can’t do much.
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Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.
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Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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Our people are dying, poverty and unemployment are on the rise, but the rest of the world says that Musharraf is needed because [only] he can stop nuclear proliferation, [only] he [can launch] an operation in the tribal areas.
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I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven, the very petri dish of international terrorism.
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The best revenge is democracy.
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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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Military or dictatorial rule is not good for our Pakistan.
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Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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