I know death comes. I’ve seen too much death, young death.
BENAZIR BHUTTOThe government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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Purusing peace means rising above one’s own wants, needs, and emotions.
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The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.
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Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
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Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren’t our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?
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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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So he manipulates and dangles some kind of carrot in front of the world all the time. This is not good for the people [of Pakistan], and I think the world has got it all wrong.
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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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The Orange Revolution in Ukraine is a good example of how people, who are robbed of their right to vote, can protest and put an end to dictatorship.
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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 political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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The 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.
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The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
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Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of the government.
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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.
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Democracy is the best revenge.
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