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.
BENAZIR BHUTTOThe next few months are critical to Pakistan’s future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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I still want to return home whenever I get a chance.
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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.
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I dream …of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction
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The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit.
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The best revenge is democracy.
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I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman.
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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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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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Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
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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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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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It’s quite difficult for me not to be able to return to my country, but in my country justice has been murdered.
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Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
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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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