“It would be bad politics to try and summarize a situation which is dynamic. Have faith in mankind and its mission.”

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Source: Letter to his daughter (1978), p. 80.
Context: It would be bad politics to try and summarize a situation which is dynamic. Have faith in mankind and its mission. God the Creator is the God of all mankind. God is omnipotent yet. The Creator of this World and the World after this one has imposed on Himself the obligation to be kind and forgiving. No tin-pot dictator of a palm-tree society is capable of imposing any such obligations on himself. On the contrary, he vainly boasts that he is answerable and accountable to nobody.

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Fourth President and ninth Prime Minister of Pakistan 1928–1979

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