Hungary Quotes

• Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know theyre different countries.

  Kevin Keegan

  Country, Different, Bulgaria

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• In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

  Franz Liszt

  Song, Melody, Divided

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• In Hungary, acting is a profession. In America, it is a decision.

  Bela Lugosi

  Usa, America, Decision

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• I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life.

  Georg Solti

  Country, Son, Lucky

  Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Memoirs”, Knopf

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• Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

  Lajos Kossuth

  War, Independence, Dynasty

  Lajos Kossuth, Francis William Newman (1854). “Select Speeches of Kossuth”, p.17

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• In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

  Bela Lugosi

  Philosophy, Law, Careers

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• I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Broken Heart, Believe, Misfortunes

  Lajos Kossuth, Francis William Newman (1853). “Select speeches, condensed and abridged, with Kossuth's express sanction, by F. W. Newman”, p.30

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• The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.

  Emily Greene Balch

  War, Europe, East

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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• I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.

  Bela Karolyi

  Borders, Romania, Grew

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• My first husband, yes, I eloped with him from Hungary against my mother's wishes.

  Eva Gabor

  Mother, Husband, Wish

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• Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!

  Walter Raleigh

  Son, May, Bless

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• We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighers did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Comfort, Germany, Never Forget

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Kings, Order, Issues

  Lajos Kossuth (1853). “Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman”, p.16

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• Lawyers are like that famous vampire-bat, said to exist in Hungary, which seizes on a creature, and never lets go while there is blood left.

  Walter Besant

  Letting Go, Blood, Vampire

  Besant, Walter (2014). “Dorothy Forster”, p.73, Read Books Ltd

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• Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.

  Hari Kunzru

  Criticism, Wish, Lectures

  "The Frightening Hungarian Crackdown". www.newyorker.com. January 8, 2013.

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• The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Years, House, Independence

  Lajos Kossuth (1853). “Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman”, p.12

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• There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar.

  Garry Kasparov

  Women, Competition, Example

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.76, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• In the oldest chronicles of the times conserved in Hungary, reports will be found of Gypsy music, but never of any other, either Magyar, Slavic or Jewish.

  Franz Liszt

  Gypsy, Found, Chronicles

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• The fact that refugees traveled through six other countries, like former Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, France, Germany, Holland, is because they like our social benefits. They like our welfare state. They know which country to pick. They're not going to stay in Hungary or in Estonia. They come to Germany, to Holland. And people sense that those are not the real refugees. And our government has spent billions of euros on them, and the Dutch people know.

  Geert Wilders

  Country, Real, Government

  Source: www1.cbn.com

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• Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend. All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II. Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?

  Adam Hochschild

  War, Years, Museums

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The first year I was in office, only about 800 people came out of the Soviet Union, Jews. By the third year I was in office... second year, 1979, 51,000 came out of the Soviet Union. And every one of the human rights heroes - I'll use the word - who have come out of the Soviet Union, have said it was a turning point in their lives, and not only in the Soviet Union but also in places like Czechoslovakia and Hungary and Poland [they] saw this human rights policy of mine as being a great boost to the present democracy and freedom that they enjoy.

  Jimmy Carter

  Hero, Rights, Years

  "Interview with President Jimmy Carter". Index of coldwar Interviews. Episode-18, nsarchive.gwu.edu.

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• A single party is ruling in Hungary, but democracy and the freedom of speech are still in place.

  Jaroslaw Kaczynski

  Party, Freedom Of Speech, Democracy

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• I'm going to show you the real New York - witty, smart, and international - like any metropolis. Tell me this: where in Europe can you find old Hungary, old Russia, old France, old Italy? In Europe you're trying to copy America, you're almost American. But here you'll find Europeans who immigrated a hundred years ago - and we haven't spoiled them. Oh, Gio! You must see why I love New York. Because the whole world's in New York.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Witty, New York, Real

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• I was precocious enough to watch the news and read the papers, and I can remember October 1956, the simultaneous crisis in Hungary and Suez, very well. And getting a sense that the world was dangerous, a sense that the game was up, that the Empire was over.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Games, Watches, News

  Christopher Hitchens (2017). “Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.42, Melville House

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• I've always criticised American policy when I've disagreed with it. Just as I've criticised British policy. I was violently anti-Suez and pro-American in 1956, just as I was violently anti-Soviet on the invasion of Hungary which took place at the same time.

  Denis Healey

  Invasion, British, Policy

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