Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren’t our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?
BENAZIR BHUTTODemocracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
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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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You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.
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A political war can be fought from anywhere.
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All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held ‘elections.’ Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things.
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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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I know death comes. I’ve seen too much death, young death.
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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.
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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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In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.
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The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
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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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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 forces of moderation and democracy must, and will, prevail against extremism and dictatorship. I will not be intimidated… Despite threats of death, I will not acquiesce to tyranny, but rather lead the fight against it.
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