Serbia Quotes:

Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past,

- Ivica Dacic

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

topic: Past, Deals, Turns, Balkans, Serbia

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

topic: Imagine, Cradle, Kosovo, Serbia

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

topic: Alive, Spirit, Dictator, Serbia

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

- Novak Djokovic

topic: Basketball, Sports, Football, Water Polo, Handball

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

- Novak Djokovic

topic: Dream, Children, World, Serbia

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

- John Burns

topic: Fighting, Four, Should, Serbia

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

topic: Country, Order, People, Serbia

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

topic: War, Fighting, Cutting, Serbia

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

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

topic: War, Years, Long, Serbia

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

topic: Country, Government, Greek, Ottomans, Bulgaria

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

topic: Yugoslavia, Republic, Doe, Kosovo, Privatization

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

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: Independent, Government, Body, Central Government, Serbia

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

- Slobodan Milosević

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

topic: Heart, Serbia

Serbia stands firmly on the EU path.

- Ivica Dacic

topic: Path, Stand Firm, Serbia

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

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: Sea, Lines, Want, Kosovo, Serbia

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

- Marina Abramovic

topic: Country, Serbia

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

topic: Past, Offering, Blood, Balkans, Serbia

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

- Ben Cardin

topic: Moving, Opportunity, Europe, Serbia

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

topic: War, Heart, Wine, Belgium, Serbia

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

topic: Ethnicity, Long, Thought Provoking, Kosovo, Serbia

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

topic: Running, Player, Parent, Serbia

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

topic: War, Growing Knowledge, Elements, Summary, Aircraft

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

topic: Thoughtful, Self, Yugoslavia, Globetrotters, Croatia

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

topic: Real, Government, Two, Albania, Balkans

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

topic: Struggle, Political, Tribes, Facing The Truth, Albanian

A final and long-lasting solution to the Kosovo issue cannot be achieved without an agreement with Serbia, especially in regard to the U.N.

- Ivica Dacic

topic: Agreement, Issues, Long, Serbia

Serbia is blamed in advance for everything.

- Ivica Dacic

topic: Serbia

If you go to former Yugoslav states, the Balkan states, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia, the situation is dire. Not to mention Bosnia, which is just run like a colony. The way they used to stand up and sing hymns to President Tito, they now salute the EU flag. It's a very strange transition that we're witnessing in most of Europe, and I don't think it's going to work.

- Tariq Ali

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Running, Thinking, Europe, Balkans, Tito

I appreciate our government's determination to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of the Bytyqi brothers, which Serbia's Interior Minister has rightly called 'an exceptionally serious crime,' and hope the Serbian government's pledge of full cooperation... is matched by a final accounting of their murder.

- John McCain

topic: Determination, Brother, Government, Matched, Serbia

You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in Serbia.

- Emir Kusturica

topic: Thinking, Yugoslavia, Life Is, Serbia

We, the present-day political leaders, are called upon to take responsibility for making joint decisions upon which the prosperity of future generations will heavily depend. Serbia may be a small country yet, through partner cooperation with others, it can confront all challenges and address problems that overcome its capacities.

- Tomislav Nikolic

topic: Country, Responsibility, Decision, Political Leaders, Small Countries

As prime minister, I will never make a decision that will be an injustice to Serbia and its citizens.

- Ivica Dacic

topic: Decision, Citizens, Injustice, Serbia

As Serbia continues to move towards rectifying the evils of its past and joining the ranks of democratic nations, it is important that the individuals involved in the death of the Bytyqi brothers are held accountable for their actions[.]

- Tim Bishop

topic: Brother, Moving, Past, Serbia

Can you cite one speck of hard evidence of the benefits of "diversity" that we have heard gushed about for years? Evidence of its harm can be seen — written in blood — from Iraq to India, from Serbia to Sudan, from Fiji to the Philippines. It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.

- Thomas Sowell

source: Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.397, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Blood, Years, Iraq, Fiji, Sudan

I think it is in the interest of the people of [Serbia] that no one, not even the government, can get away with the crime, whoever the victim.

- Michael Kirby

topic: Thinking, Government, People, Serbia

Hopefully, Serbia's political leaders will not only recognize the seriousness which we attach to this case but also understand that it is in Serbia's interest to let justice work to sever the ties with the Milosevic past that have held the country back from a Europe where it otherwise belongs.

- Tim Bishop

topic: Country, Past, Ties, Serbia

In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernize, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things.

- Emir Kusturica

topic: Hate, People, Understanding, Serbia

Well, I do feel that I carry the responsibility of representing my country wherever I am, and this responsibility came with the success that I had in last couple of years, not just myself but the whole group of tennis players that comes from Serbia. And athletes in general are, in this moment, the biggest ambassadors that our country has.

- Novak Djokovic

topic: Country, Couple, Athlete, Serbia

My roots are very closely tied to the DNA of the brand. Growing up in Serbia where women are unapologetically very feminine, I came to London and realised that I wanted to keep this feminine element but give it a twist and challenge ideas of classical beauty.

- Roksanda Ilincic

topic: Growing Up, Dna, Ideas, Serbia

I hope very much this event, the death of Milosevic will help Serbia to look definitely to the future.

- Javier Solana

topic: Events, Looks, Helping, Serbia

One of the reasons they didn't go to Bosnia, bin Laden has explained extensively, was because they couldn't establish a base anywhere. Not in Catholic Croatia. Not in Orthodox Serbia. So they sent some trainers and a lot of money.

- Michael Scheuer

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Catholic, Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia

The fact is that there was a long war in which Serbia and its capital Belgrade were bombarded and attacked with missiles. It was a military intervention of the West and NATO against the then rump Yugoslavia.

- Vladimir Putin

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: War, Military, Yugoslavia, Military Intervention, Belgrade

Take a look at the bombing of Serbia in 1999. The US was quite open about the reasons for the bombing. A main reason was to preserve stability and credibility. Serbia was interfering with stability, meaning that it was the one part of the Balkans that was not integrated into the Western-dominated (mostly US-dominated) system.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: www.madre.org

topic: Looks, Reason, Balkans, Serbia

The Soviet Union came apart along ethnic lines. The most important factor in this breakup was the disinclination of Slavic Ukraine to continue under a regime dominated by Slavic Russia. Yugoslavia came apart also, beginning with a brutal clash between Serbia and Croatia, here again 'nations' with only the smallest differences in genealogy; with, indeed, practically a common language. Ethnic conflict does not require great differences; small will do.

- Daniel Patrick Moynihan

topic: Breakup, Russia, Ukraine, Genealogy, Common Language

We have carried out the attempted premeditated murder of an entire nation. We were caught in that criminal act and have been obstructed. Now we have to suffer the punishment.... In the Balkan Wars, Serbia not only doubled its territory, but also its external enemies.

- Dimitrije Tucovic

topic: War, Punishment, Enemy, Balkans, Serbia

The army did what Milosevic's regime asked of it, which was to create a 'Greater Serbia'.

- Carlos Mesa

topic: Army, Regimes, Greater, Serbia

I've enjoyed, to a certain extent, any country I've been in, of course like Serbia and Croatia can be very restrictive and oppressive, and frustrating, but they're still very beautiful.

- Henry Rollins

topic: Beautiful, Country, Croatia, Serbia

Yugoslavia and Serbia will fight against terrorists regardless of whether a political agreement is reached or not.

- Ivica Dacic

topic: Fighting, Agreement, Yugoslavia, Serbia

The truth is the President of the United States used the same device that Slobodan Milosevic used in Serbia. When you appeal to homophobia, when you appeal to sexism, when you appeal to racism, that is extraordinarily damaging to the country.

- Howard Dean

topic: Country, Racism, President, Serbia

[Today's left] would have left us with Slobodan Milosevic in power, Bosnia ethnically cleansed, Kosovo part of Greater Serbia, Afghanistan under the Taliban, and Iraq the property of a psychopathic crime family. Now, I'm sorry to say, I've no patience with that leftist mentality anymore.

- Christopher Hitchens

topic: Kosovo, Psychopathic, Serbia