“East Pakistan is no problem. We will have to kill some 20,000 people there and all will be well."”
— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. "A History of Bangladesh" by Willem van Schendel, Cambridge University Press, 2009, p. 124.
“Pakistan was once called the most allied ally of the United States. We are now the most non-allied.”
— As quoted in The New York Times (6 July 1973).
“They are going to kill me. It doesn't matter what evidence you or anyone comes up with. They are going to murder me for murder I didn't commit.”
— Speaking to a his daughter Benazir Bhutto, as quoted in her book Daughter of the East (1989).
“If things do not change, there will be nothing left to change. Either power must pass to the people or everything will perish.”
— p. 14.
“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.”
— p. 78
“I am partial to the pantheism of Shelley. There is beauty everywhere. Even in a total war of annihiliation it will not be possible to wipe out all of it. Beauty is too beautiful to perish altogether. In this period of twelve months in solitary confinement I have rarely recalled an unpleasant or ugly glimpse of the past.”
— p. 79.