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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.

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Letter to his daughter (1978)

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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)

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