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.
BENAZIR BHUTTOLike 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.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
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Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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I’m not into smoke-filled rooms. I don’t have the time for byzantine political intrigues.
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I still want to return home whenever I get a chance.
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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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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.
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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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Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
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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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To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.
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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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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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All our problems, all our disputes, all our disagreements can be resolved quickly to mutual satisfaction if we address the question.
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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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