Top 37 Alija Izetbegovic Quotes
#2. In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences
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#3. All in all this is a difficult political struggle which will go on for years, in which our people won't die anymore; I'm not sure how much we will be able to win, but I'm certain that we won't loose anything that we have now.
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#4. There is more than one evolution. There are cosmological, geological, biological and sociological evolutions. The scientists of evolution say so. When I think about man, religion and art, I do not see any of those evolutions.
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#5. 500. There are paradoxes. If there were no night, we would be deprived of the
magnificent image of a starry sky. Thus light deprives us of "vision," and
darkness helps us "see.
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#6. 304. When you are in prison, you have but one desire: freedom.
If you fall ill in prison, you do not think about freedom, you think about health. Health is, therefore, more important than freedom.
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#7. These countries formally achieved independence ,but they didn't achieve real freedom, since freedom of any kind is primarily spiritual.the independence of a people which has not first won this is soon reduced to an anthem and a flag , two very minor factors for true independence
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#8. As far as the sovereignty of Bosnia-Hercegovina is concerned we agreed to have limited sovereignty for a limited time and that is clear from the Dayton Agreement.
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#9. We cannot explain life by scientific means only because life is both a miracle and a phenomenon . Wonder and admiration are the highest forms of our understanding of life .
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#10. I'm also hurt by injustice. But don't forget that we have passed through hell ,and remained sane people inspite of everything.This is our victory.
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#11. Humanism is the affirmation of man as a free and responsible being. Nothing degrades man more than the proclamation of irresponsibility. Man is responsible, animals and things are not.
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#14. I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.
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#16. I would sacrifice peace for a sovereign Bosnia-Herzegovina ... but for that peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina I would not sacrifice sovereignty.
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#17. Was there any point in those attempts at reconciliation ?
Even today,I think there was. Attempts of that kind are never pointless.
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#18. If the international community is not ready to defend the principles which it itself has proclaimed as its foundations, let it say so openly, both to the people of Bosnia and to the people of the world. Let it proclaim a new code of behavior in which force will be the first and the last argument.
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#19. 534. Life is a dangerous thing. Insecurity is the price of living. Only those who died and those who will never be born are absolutely safe.
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#20. Science attempts to figure out laws and then uses it later. While the work of art reflects the cosmic order without asking for an explanation
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#22. 366. Life is a game where nobody wins..
except for those who believe and do good deeds ... (Qur'an, Surah "Al Asr").
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#23. Our goal: the Islamization of Muslims. Our methods: to believe and to struggle.
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#24. I do not believe in the unlimited power of the majority,because tyranny of the majority is tyranny like any other.
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#25. One soldier walked infront of the troop and asked me :"President ,will there be injustice when freedom comes?", I was surprised by the question , but I answered :"Yes,unfortunately there will be injustice and you will have to fight against it just like you do now against your enemies ".
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#26. Nonetheless, out of a life of 60 or 70 years, three years is more than a thousand days and a thousand nights
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#27. Scientists or thinkers who try to discover the truth cannot find that higher life by thinking alone, but their own life, spent in search for the truth and neglecting the physical living, is just that higher form of human existence.
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#28. When a man is ill,he has only one wish -to gain health,and when he does -then come a hundred wishes and he turns even unhappier than when he was lying sick in bed
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#29. The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia ... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with.
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#30. Unfortunately, evil will never be wholly defeated.Mankind is faced with a continual struggle against evil. We believe that this is where the meaning of our lives and of human history lies.
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#33. 509. A word uncovers the truth; it can also be used to conceal it.
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#34. We have no rational evidence that there exits another world, but we have a clear feeling that man does not exist only to produce and to consume.
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#35. In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.
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#36. Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those 'others'. Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.
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#37. Science gives an exact photograph of the world, but it lacks an essential dimension of reality.
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