Benazir Bhutto Quotes, Thoughts and images

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.

Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.

To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.

A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.

Purusing peace means rising above one's own wants, needs, and emotions.

What is not recorded is not remembered.

The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.

Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.

No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.

It's quite difficult for me not to be able to return to my country, but in my country justice has been murdered.

Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

Democracy is the best revenge.

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

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.

America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.

I know death comes. I've seen too much death, young death.

The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.

What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.

Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren't our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?

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.

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.

In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.

Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.

The best revenge is democracy.