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.
BENAZIR BHUTTOTo make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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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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I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman.
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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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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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Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
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The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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The best revenge is democracy.
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What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.
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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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Purusing peace means rising above one’s own wants, needs, and emotions.
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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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Being in jail is difficult too because it’s like being in a graveyard, you can’t do much.
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No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.
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The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.
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