Democracy is the best revenge.
BENAZIR BHUTTOPakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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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.
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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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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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The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit.
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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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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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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.
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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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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.
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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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The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.
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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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The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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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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