I dream …of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction
BENAZIR BHUTTOThe 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.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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I still want to return home whenever I get a chance.
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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 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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A political war can be fought from anywhere.
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Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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[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.
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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 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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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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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 political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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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 people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
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Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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