Haq's Quotes

#1. In the last analysis, human security means a child who did not die, a disease that did not spread, an ethnic tension that did not explode, a dissident who was not silenced, a human spirit that was not crushed.

Mahbub Ul Haq

#2. An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.

Brent Scowcroft

#3. What is a constitution? It is a booklet with twelve or ten pages. I can tear them away and say that tomorrow we shall live under a different system. Today, the people will follow wherever I lead. All the politicians including the once mighty Mr. Bhutto will follow me with tails wagging.

Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq

#4. Callin something a 'moral panic' does not imply that this something does not exist or happened at all and that reaction is based on fantasy, hysteria, delusion and illusion or being duped by the powerful.

Stanley Cohen

#5. People are the real wealth of a nation.

Mahbub Ul Haq

#6. It is very easy to point fingers at others sitting at home, but very difficult to play the game.

Misbah-ul-Haq

#7. If you want to appeal to everyone, you can't do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date - when you're in Australia, when you're in Dubai, when you're in Indonesia.

Kevin Hart

#8. Once you make a journey to a near impossible destination, you get to realize how everything and anything is possible

Luthfy Es-Haq

#9. But at the heart of character is the ability to restrain our desires. As a man grows in character, he builds the muscles of self-restraint.

Richard E. Simmons III

#10. Now at last the slowly gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us. Four or five millions of men met each other in the first shock of the most merciless of all the wars of which record has been kept.

Winston Churchill

#11. Everyone remember's the last shot of World T20 2007, but forget who brought the match to the last over.

Misbah-ul-Haq

#12. I am an average player, but even the great players don't have an average of 42, with a strike-rate of 75.

Misbah-ul-Haq

#13. A Silent Cry Doesn't Have Any Single Drop of Tear

Rahman Mostafiz

#14. Call me 'Tuk-Tuk', and keep saying it, but remember I am the captain of Pakistan.

Misbah-ul-Haq

#15. With Zia's controversial demise in 1988, Jinnah was finally spared the false beard Zia kept pinning on the founder's otherwise clean-shaven face.

Nadeem Farooq Paracha

#16. During our meetings in Peshawar, Abdul Haq...asked me why the United States does not pay attention to terrorism. He compared America to a huge elephant: "One hundred people push on it and it doesn't blink, but when it decides to move, it lumbers forward and crushes everything.

Peter Tomsen

#17. Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.

Publilius Syrus

#18. It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.

Jacques Ellul

#19. Take these words home and think it through;
Or the next rhyme I write might be about you.

Prodigy

#20. The real wealth of a nation is its people. And the purpose of development is to create an enabling environment for people to enjoy long, healthy, and creative lives. This simple but powerful truth is too often forgotten in the pursuit of material and financial wealth.

Mahbub Ul Haq