Ex Yugoslavia Quotes

#1. 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

#2. You go where the work is. It can be in my own back yard, Israel, Spain, or Yugoslavia. We may have the greatest technical efficiency in the world, but our artistic values are not necessarily the best.

Lee Van Cleef

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

Ivica Dacic

#4. [ ... ] I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China and continue my profession.'
'As sanitary engineer?'
'No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the peoples and all the countries in the world.

Bruce Chatwin

#5. If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states.

Franjo Tudjman

#6. In the Middle East, Iraq , Sudan , the former Yugoslavia and Northern Ireland, and many other places in the world , religion has been so divisive that people have killed one another, believing they were doing the work of God .

John C. Danforth

#7. I was born on July 23rd, 1906, in Sarajevo in the province of Bosnia, which then belonged to the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy and later, in 1918, became part of Yugoslavia.

Vladimir Prelog

#8. I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.

Bobby Fischer

#9. I fearthat both dictators [Hitler and Mussolini] think their present methods are succeeding because of the gains they have made in Albania, Hungary and Yugoslavia.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#10. I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country.

Emir Kusturica

#11. Cruelty is absolutely foreign to their natures.Some people once talked of setting up a branch of the " Prevention of Cruelty to Animals" in Serbia, and were asked in astonishment what work they supposed they would find to do ; who ever heard of a Serbian being cruel to child or animal?

Flora Sandes

#12. In December of 1952, my first wife, Kirby, and I left Vienna to drive through the Russian sector of Austria into Yugoslavia.

Donald Hall

#13. Well, you know, in America everybody is interested in making the dollar fast. In Yugoslavia no matter how much you hustle you're not going to get rich, so you might as well play chess.

Bobby Fischer

#14. 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

#15. How can I play baseball if I'm stupid? If I was stupid I wouldn't have pitched in the World Series. I'd be playing ball in Mexico or Yugoslavia or on Pluto.

Joaquin Andujar

#16. I'd like to live off the band, but if not, I'll just retire to Mexico or Yugoslavia with a few hundred dollars, grow potatoes, and learn the history of rock through back issues of Creem magazine.

Kurt Cobain

#17. There is only one superpower now and it doesn't know what to do with its status. As a result, we got Yugoslavia and Iraq, and the situation has only got worse.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#18. I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.

Rebecca West

#19. We're not trying to recreate Yugoslavia

Chris Patten

#20. None of our republics would be anything if we weren't all together; but we have to create our own history - history of United Yugoslavia, also in the future.

Josip Broz Tito

#21. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia authorities face the complicated task of stabilising and reviving a devastated economy after years of regional conflicts, international isolation and economic mismanagement.

Stanley Fischer

#22. The food in Yugoslavia is fine if you like pork tartare.

Ed Begley Jr.

#23. In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces ... Nobody wanted to send troops.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#24. We are three countries that emerged from the former Yugoslavia - countries that are now in transition and must cooperate with each other, because our economies depend on each other.

Stjepan Mesic

#25. I feel absolutely no loyalty to Serbian, Croatian, or Bosnian national causes. I have no other emotion but utter contempt for people who helped destroy Yugoslavia, and I feel the same about the people who are now selling what is left of it." (p. 13)

Andrej Grubacic

#26. We were in an awkward position against Yugoslavia in that in order to win we needed to score more goals than they did.

Jose Antonio Camacho

#27. Kosovo is now the biggest problem confronting Yugoslavia

Josip Broz Tito

#28. What you have in Iraq is not just a society coming apart like Yugoslavia or Congo. What is at stake is not just Iraq's stability but the balance of power in the region.

Vali Nasr

#29. In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.

Christiane Amanpour

#30. Today, 9 May, exactly forty-nine months and three days after the Fascist attack on Yugoslavia, the most powerful aggressive force in Europe, Germany, has capitulated.

Josip Broz Tito

#31. This soup is as cold as the sea! But he was not shouting at the soup. He was shouting at the Turks, at the Venetians, at the Austrians, at the French, and at the Serbs (if he was Croat) or at the Croats (if he was a Serb).

Rebecca West

#32. The poor Americans are so busy defending the rights of Hindus in Pakistan, Moslems in India, Jews in Palestine, Koreans in Japan, Italians in Yugoslavia and Hungarians in Czechoslovakia that they simply cannot give a thought to Negroes in the United States.

George Mikes