Serbia Quotes

• Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past.

  Ivica Dacic

  Past, Balkans, Deals

  "Ex-Milosevic spokesman becomes new Serbia prime minister". www.foxnews.com. July 27, 2012.

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• Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.

  Novak Djokovic

  Imagine, Cradle, Kosovo

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• The spirit of rebellion must live in Serbia. Only then will we know we are alive and not servants of a dictator.

  Zoran ?in?ic

  Alive, Spirit, Dictator

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• The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.

  Novak Djokovic

  Basketball, Sports, Football

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• I want to help children in Serbia and around the world so they can realize their dreams.

  Novak Djokovic

  Dream, Children, World

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

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• Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.

  John Burns

  Fighting, Four, Should

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• Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Country, Order, People

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• Milosevic will never stop, because he is fighting for personal power in Serbia. The only way to stop him is cutting the functioning of his war machine. He is spending $1.7 million a day on his war machine in Kosovo.

  Fatos Nano

  War, Fighting, Cutting

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• War is a culture, bellicosity is addictive, defeat for a community that imagines itself to be history's eternal victim can be as intoxicating as victory. How long will it take for the Serbs to realize that the Milosevic years have been an unmitigated disaster for Serbia, the net result of Milosevic's policies being the economic and cultural ruin of the entire region, including Serbia, for several generations? Alas, one thing we can be sure of, that will not happen soon.

  Susan Sontag

  War, Years, Long

  "Why Are We in Kosovo?" by Susan Sontag, www.nytimes.com. May 2, 1999.

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• The hopelessness of the Turkish Government should make me witness with delight its being swept out of the countries which it tortures. Next to the Ottoman Government nothing can be more deplorable and blameworthy than jealousies between Greek and Slav and plans by the States already existing for appropriating other territory. Why not Macedonia for the Macedonians as well as Bulgaria for the Bulgarians and Serbia for the Serbians?

  William E. Gladstone

  Country, Government, Greek

  "Mr. Gladstone and The Balkan Confederation". "The Sunday Times" Newspaper, February 6, 1897.

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• So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Yugoslavia, Doe, Republic

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• Just take Kosovo: back then, UN bodies decided that Kosovo should become independent of Serbia and that the interests of Serbia's central government had to be subordinated. You can read that in all the records, also in the German ones.

  Vladimir Putin

  Independent, Government, Body

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• Kosovo is not a part of Serbia. It is the very heart of Serbia.

  Slobodan Milosević

  Heart, Kosovo

  Interview with the President of Serbia-Montenegro Mr. Svetozar Marovic, November-December 2006.

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• Serbia stands firmly on the EU path.

  Ivica Dacic

  Path, Stand Firm

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• The first thing you have to do is understand what success looks like. And to understand what success looks like you have to understand the intent. If you understand that intent is to make sure the sea lines are secure, then suddenly bombing Kosovo makes sense, because you don't want Serbia to reemerge as a major power.

  George Friedman

  Sea, Lines, Want

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• I never say Serbia. I always say I come from a country that no longer exists.

  Marina Abramovic

  Country

  "Interview: Marina Abramović" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2010.

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• There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past.

  Ivica Dacic

  Past, Offering, Blood

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• Now that Serbia is moving towards integration into Europe, the opportunities to get closer cooperation may very well exist.

  Ben Cardin

  Moving, Opportunity, Europe

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• God has chosen little nations as the vessels by which He carries His choicest wines to the lips of humanity to rejoice their hearts, to exalt their vision, to strengthen their faith, and if we had stood by when two little nations [Belgium and Serbia] were being crushed and broken by the brutal hands of barbarians, our shame would have rung down the everlasting ages.

  David Lloyd George

  War, Heart, Wine

  "The Great War". David Lloyd George's Speech delivered at the Queen's Hall, London, September 19, 1914.

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• In Sarajevo and in Syria, these are societies - in Bosnia, in Serbia, in Kosovo, in Syria - where ethnicities live side by side and intermarry for long periods of time until it becomes valuable to exploit the division. And yes, the division's there because you can always revert back to history, you can always inflame it, but it is manipulated for political ends.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Ethnicity, Long, Thought Provoking

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• I decided to play tennis not because I wanted to be a professional player, but because my parents wanted me to get involved in something so I wouldnt be running around the streets in Serbia.

  Jelena Jankovic

  Running, Player, Tennis

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• We continue to receive reports that the morale of some elements is being damaged, .. They are being affected by the impunity with which NATO aircraft can operate over Kosovo and Serbia, the accuracy and the growing knowledge.. of deployed locations. In summary, NATO has eroded the capability of Milosevic's war machine and it is being further reduced as each day goes by.

  John Day

  War, Growing Knowledge, Elements

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• In Globetrotter, David Albahari explores the consciousness of emigres from the former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Serbia, showing that while abroad, many of us are even more intensely preoccupied with our histories than we were while living in Yugoslavia. His narrative structured out of realistic details and perceptions with self-conscious meditation blending history, civilization and its discontents, and personal experience reaches a density and intensity akin to Krasznahorkai's and Thomas Bernhard's. An intensely idiosyncratic narrative, enjoyable and thoughtful.

  Josip Novakovich

  Thoughtful, Self, Yugoslavia

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• Unlimited enmity of the Albanian people against Serbia is the foremost real result of the Albanian policies of the Serbian government. The second and more dangerous result is the strengthening of two big powers in Albania, which have the greatest interests in the Balkans.

  Dimitrije Tucovic

  Real, Government, Two

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• It is now necessary to face the truth and to acknowledge against all prejudices that the struggle that the Albanian tribe is leading today is a natural and unavoidable historic struggle for a different political life than that experienced under Turkish rule - different also from that which its neighbours Serbia, Greece and Montenegro would like to force upon the Albanians.

  Dimitrije Tucovic

  Struggle, Political, Different

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