When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation – namely, life, liberty and justice for all.
BENAZIR BHUTTOThe best revenge is democracy.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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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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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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Being in jail is difficult too because it’s like being in a graveyard, you can’t do much.
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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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The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.
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The U.S. came to understand that Bhutto was not a threat to stability but was instead the only possible way that we could guarantee stability and keep the presidency of Musharraf intact.
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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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What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.
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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.
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Military or dictatorial rule is not good for our Pakistan.
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Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of the government.
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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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I know death comes. I’ve seen too much death, young death.
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Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value – democracy.
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Purusing peace means rising above one’s own wants, needs, and emotions.
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