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 BHUTTOYou 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.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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Democracy is the best revenge.
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The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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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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Democracy is the best revenge. After Benazir Bhutto’s death, her son’s brief public remarks were captured on video, and they were reported in international newspapers. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced, “My mother always said, ‘ Democracy is the best revenge.
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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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I’m not into smoke-filled rooms. I don’t have the time for byzantine political intrigues.
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Military or dictatorial rule is not good for our Pakistan.
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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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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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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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In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.
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Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
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It’s quite difficult for me not to be able to return to my country, but in my country justice has been murdered.
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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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Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions.
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