Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
BENAZIR BHUTTODemocracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in 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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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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Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
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The best revenge is democracy.
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It’s never easy dealing with terrorists, but it must be done through a mixture of political, economic and administrative means.
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The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
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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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Being in jail is difficult too because it’s like being in a graveyard, you can’t do much.
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Purusing peace means rising above one’s own wants, needs, and emotions.
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Pakistan 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.
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In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.
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While living in America when I attended Harvard in the early 1970s, I saw for myself the awesome, almost miraculous, power of a people to change policy through democratic means.
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Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
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So he manipulates and dangles some kind of carrot in front of the world all the time. This is not good for the people [of Pakistan], and I think the world has got it all wrong.
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