We learned at an early age that it was men’s interpretation of our religion that restricted women’s opportunities, not our religion itself. Islam in fact had been quite progressive toward women from its inception.
BENAZIR BHUTTOEvery dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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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 Orange Revolution in Ukraine is a good example of how people, who are robbed of their right to vote, can protest and put an end to dictatorship.
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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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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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Military hardliners called me a ‘security threat’ for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
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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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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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Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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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.
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The best revenge is democracy.
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Being nice should never be perceived as being weak. It’s not a sign of weakness, it’s a sign of courtesy, manners, grace, a woman’s ability to make everyone…feel at home, and it should never be construed as weakness.
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America’s greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.
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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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Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
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