Purusing peace means rising above one’s own wants, needs, and emotions.
BENAZIR BHUTTOI am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
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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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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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The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.
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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.
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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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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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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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My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism – certainly not politics.
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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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Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
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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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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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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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