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 BHUTTOPurusing peace means rising above one’s own wants, needs, and emotions.
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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Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
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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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The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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Democracy is the best revenge.
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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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Being in jail is difficult too because it’s like being in a graveyard, you can’t do much.
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Our people are dying, poverty and unemployment are on the rise, but the rest of the world says that Musharraf is needed because [only] he can stop nuclear proliferation, [only] he [can launch] an operation in the tribal areas.
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The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.
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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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General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me.
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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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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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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 am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
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The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.
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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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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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Purusing peace means rising above one’s own wants, needs, and emotions.
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The next few months are critical to Pakistan’s future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.
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I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven, the very petri dish of international terrorism.
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Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
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A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
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The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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