black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.

Benazir Bhutto

Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Departure Misery Voice
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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Giving People Taken
The next decade cannot be a decade of confrontation and contention. It cannot be east vs. West. It cannot be men vs. women. It cannot be Islam vs. Christianity. That is what the enemies of dialogue want.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Enemy Men Unity
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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Awesome Country People Power
Being in jail is difficult too because it’s like being in a graveyard, you can’t do much.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Difficult Graveyard Jail
The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Military Privilege Want
So he manipulates and dangles some kind of carrot in front of the world all the time. This is not good for the people [of Pakistan], and I think the world has got it all wrong.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Dangles Good People Poverty Time Tribal World
[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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Lying President Ruth Telling
I dream …of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Development Dream Life Pro
I know death comes. I’ve seen too much death, young death.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Come Death Knows Much Young
No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Ministers Prime Want
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 BHUTTO

Islam Men Opportunity
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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Believe Thinking War
All our problems, all our disputes, all our disagreements can be resolved quickly to mutual satisfaction if we address the question.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Addresses Problem Satisfaction
Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Democracies Democracy Peace Terrorism
Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren’t our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Enemy Fighting War

Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Benazir Bhutto Quotes