23 quotes
It would be bad politics to try and summarize a situation which is dynamic. Have faith in mankind and its mission.
Letter to his daughter (1978)
If things do not change, there will be nothing left to change. Either power must pass to the people or everything will perish.
Letter to his daughter (1978)
We badly need to gather our thoughts and clear our minds. We need a political ceasefire without conceding ideological territory.
Letter to his daughter (1978)
I would be the happiest man if the gloomy winter of mankind were to give way to a shaft of sunlight and to coloured flowers. The world is very beautiful.
Letter to his daughter (1978)
The theories, the dogmas and the scripts stand outside the gates of history. The dominant factor is the aspiration of the people and the ability to seek total identification with it.
Letter to his daughter (1978)
I am guiding you to seek truth from the facts of the historical conditions of our society and to identify the problems. The correct solutions will come with the correct identification of the problems.
Letter to his daughter (1978)
I am trying to trace the roots of the problems, the genesis of the challenges, the cause of the struggle.
Letter to his daughter (1978)
You cannot be big unless you are prepared to kiss the ground.
Letter to his daughter (1978)
The dictator is the one animal who needs to be caged.
Letter to his daughter (1978)
Religion is a link between God and man and man and man. Political ideology is a link between man and man.
Letter to his daughter (1978)
If an unlearned adventurer in his quest for political power and perpetuation brings religion down from its celestial plane to a mundane level by converting it into a narrow political ideology, the adventurer endangers the link between God and man and man and man.
Letter to his daughter (1978)
Life is a love affair. There is a romance with every beauty of nature.
Letter to his daughter (1978)
I am partial to the pantheism of Shelley. There is beauty everywhere.
Letter to his daughter (1978)
Earlier, I have cautioned you against an outright pragmatist approach. Now I am cautioning you against an outright populist approach.
Letter to his daughter (1978)
Your grand-father taught me the politics of pride, your grandmother taught me the politics of poverty. I am beholden to both for the fine synthesis.
Letter to his daughter (1978)
The favourite slogan, the one that caught on during the May 1968 fête in France was "it is forbidden to forbid". There is nothing to forbid the youth of Europe to reject both communism and capitalism.
Letter to his daughter (1978)
Africa will rid herself of the maniacs.
Letter to his daughter (1978)
What I write is full of infirmities.
Letter to his daughter (1978)
Tin-pot dictators have ravaged Asia, Latin America and Africa. In the aftermath, they have done more to promote communism than the works of Marx and Engels, Lenin and Mao.
Letter to his daughter (1978)
The nation is gripped in her worst crisis, standing in the middle of the road between survival and disintegration. Since the birth of Pakistan, crisis has followed crisis in rapid escalation. Millions of lives were sacrificed to create this country.
Letter to his daughter (1978)