Bosnians Quotes

• I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.

  Michael Ignatieff

  War, Historical, Happened

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• We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.

  Warren Christopher

  Gone, Force, Obligation

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• I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Nasty, British, Said

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let that man be a Bosnian, Herzegovinian. Outside they don't call you by another name, except simply a Bosnian. Whether that be a Muslim (Bosniak), Serb or Croat. Everyone can be what they feel that they are, and no one has a right to force a nationality upon them.

  Josip Broz Tito

  Men, Names, Force

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• [Albert Camus]didn't have much hope that things would work out, but he wanted them to. Algeria had reached such a degree of violence that once such violence is created there's no more room for reflection. And there's no mediating position. If you look at Bosnia today, the Croats, Bosnians and Serbs, they've all created so much horror that one starts to wonder how these peoples can live together, after having done what they have. Already the violence has reached such a degree that everybody is living in hate, there's no possibility of reflection, no mediating position.

  Catherine Camus

  Hate, Reflection, Work Out

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• I dream of a world where people from different backgrounds are praying and working for the flourishment of communities different from them, and I find my sustenance not only in these stories in scripture, but in stories of human existence also - the story of the Bosnian Muslim man who took to a Serbian couple with a new baby a liter of milk every day during that horrible struggle in the former Yugoslavia, because he said even if our tribes, our nations, are at war with each other, there is something deeply human about me wishing that your baby survives and is secure.

  Eboo Patel

  Dream, Baby, Couple

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm sure if you were a Bosnian during the war, you would wish to kill Serbs. Just because it is the opposite of you and because they're aggressors. And also, it happens to me when I get attacked.

  Gaspar Noe

  War, Opposites, Wish

  Source: www.freepatentsonline.com

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• If you're a Bosnian and suddenly you get attacked by the Serbs, there's just one way of getting rid of your opponents. It's taking revenge and trying to fight as hard as you can.

  Gaspar Noe

  Revenge, Fighting, Trying

  Source: www.freepatentsonline.com

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• See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.

  Orson Welles

  Lying, Believe, Thinking

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• I was born Muslim, my parents are Muslim, I am Bosnian. I cannot be anything else.

  Adnan

  Parent, Born

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• The Bosnian Genocide was something that triggered my consciousness and led to an awakening politically for me.

  Maajid Nawaz

  Awakening, Consciousness, Genocide

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Fiction, Literature, Distinction

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• There was a genocide unfolding against Bosnian Muslims and we, in the United Kingdom, were incredibly angered - a teenager at the time, 15 years old, so my young teenage mind processed that in a way typical to the very passionate and angry and black-and-white way that teenagers often can do.

  Maajid Nawaz

  Teenage, Black And White, Years

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Europe has another meaning for me. Every time I mention that word, I see the Bosnian family in front of me, living far away from whatever they call home and eating their own wonderful food because that's all that is left for them. The fact remains that after fifty years, it was possible to have another war in Europe; that it was possible to change borders; that genocide is still possible even today.

  Slavenka Drakulic

  War, Home, Years

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• I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzegovina. Very poor. The Turks came and brought Islam. There were three brothers in the family. One was Orthodox Christian. The other two took Islam to survive.

  Emir Kusturica

  Christian, Brother, Illustration

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• But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle?

  Chris Bohjalian

  Doe, Lines, Matter

  FaceBook post by Chris Bohjalian from Apr 04, 2015

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