Benazir Bhutto Quotes

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

Our country has never started a war. Our sole objective is deterrence, the strength and capability it takes to prevent war.

We want no wars of conquest; we must avoid the temptation of territorial aggression.

To win the War, to overcome the enemy upon the fields cannot alone ensure the Victory in Peace. The cause of War must be removed. Each Nation's rights must be secure from violation. Above all, from the human mind must be erased all thoughts of War as a solution. Then and then only will War cease.

Democracies don't war; democracies are peaceful countries.

Democracies don't go to war.

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of world war cannot even come into being.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

No doubt it requires two to fight. But both of them need not necessarily be fighters. It is, all the same, a fight, even if one goes on beating and the other gets beaten. There is no guarantee that others would behave properly with us even if we remain peaceful and cordial with them.

There has never been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man is the greatest protection against war.

In this age there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war. We must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

There is not a conceivable enemy unless we create it, not a nation that would fight us if it could.

No more wars, no more bloodshed, and no more threats.