You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.
BENAZIR BHUTTOOppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren’t our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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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 know death comes. I’ve seen too much death, young death.
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All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held ‘elections.’ Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things.
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General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me.
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Purusing peace means rising above one’s own wants, needs, and emotions.
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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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The clerics took to the mosque saying that Pakistan had thrown itself outside the Muslim world and the Muslim umar by voting for a woman, that a woman had usurped a man’s place in the Islamic society.
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Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
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My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.
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I believe that democracies do not go to war; that’s the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community’s best guarantee of stability in Asia.
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A political war can be fought from anywhere.
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The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.
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[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn’t tell a lie and now they have one who can’t tell the truth.
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