black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Benazir Bhutto

I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Badly Behave Believe Shocked
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 BHUTTO

Children Father Grief
The clerics took to the mosque saying that Pakistan had thrown itself outside the Muslim world and the Muslim umar by voting for a woman, that a woman had usurped a man’s place in the Islamic society.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Country Mosque Religion Voting Women
The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Beholder Eye Hijab
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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Believe Thinking War
Military or dictatorial rule is not good for our Pakistan.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Military Pakistan
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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Freedom Inspirational Inspiring
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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Awesome Country People Power
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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Enemy Men Unity
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 BHUTTO

Grace Home Nice
Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Agendas Aim Power
The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Military Privilege Want
Democracy is the best revenge.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Democracy Freedom Revenge
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.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Country Fighting Justice
The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Men Party Political
Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
BENAZIR BHUTTO

People Return Support

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Benazir Bhutto Quotes