Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
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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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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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.
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Military or dictatorial rule is not good for our Pakistan.
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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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Democracy is the best revenge. After Benazir Bhutto’s death, her son’s brief public remarks were captured on video, and they were reported in international newspapers. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced, “My mother always said, ‘ Democracy is the best revenge.
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The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
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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 political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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It is one thing being able to contest an election and to give the people hope that I can be the next prime minister. It is a totally different situation where the people of Pakistan are told that the results are already taken and the leader of your choice is banned.
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What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.
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Like all children I had taken my father for granted. Now that I had lost him, I felt an emptiness that could never be filled. But I did not let myself cry, believing as a Muslim that tears pull a spirit earthward and won’t let it be free.
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Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
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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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