Franjo Tudjman Quotes

#1. Why doesn't the law permit a man to marry a second woman? A: Because the law says you cannot be punished twice for the same offense.

Various

#2. A roof of harmony can only be built on top of pillars of tolerance.

Shilpa Menon

#3. You should give no indication that we wish the three-way division of Bosnia.

Franjo Tudjman

#4. I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.

Daniel Day-Lewis

#5. The Muslims wanted to reign over the whole of Mostar, then gain ground to the sea and finally create an Islamic state. That is what our Croatians defend themselves against.

Franjo Tudjman

#6. The West wanted to avoid an Islamic state in Europe.

Franjo Tudjman

#7. The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.

Franjo Tudjman

#8. Let's make a deal with the Serbs. Neither history nor emotion in the Balkans will permit multinationalism. We have to give up on the illusion of the last eight years ... Dayton isn't working. Nobody - except diplomats and petty officials - believes in a sovereign Bosnia and the Dayton accords.

Franjo Tudjman

#9. Whatever happened after the liberation of Krajina, this was in no way a violation of human rights by Croatian authorities.

Franjo Tudjman

#10. The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.

Seneca The Younger

#11. I joined the anti-Fascist struggle with my best friend, who was a Jew.

Franjo Tudjman

#12. I haven't mentioned another argument, The Hague tribunal. It is clear our generals and all of you who are sitting here now with me could end up there, too.

Franjo Tudjman

#13. The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

Michael Pollan

#14. I was teaching drum lessons at a few high schools - everything from marching to classical to rock and jazz. I found that really rewarding, having to explain my thought process, having to think about stuff that I take for granted or as second nature.

Glenn Kotche

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

Franjo Tudjman

#16. Many of those who signed the Declaration of Independence were slaveholders. They did not release their slaves upon signing the Declaration, nor did they consider themselves hypocrites. In their view, the rights of men had little to do with Negroes. The

Yuval Noah Harari

#17. Thank god my wife is neither a Serb nor a Jew.

Franjo Tudjman

#18. We created a new democratic Croatia, ... The HDZ is the strongest party in Croatia, and it achieved this not because of us politicians but because of you, the people of Croatia.

Franjo Tudjman

#19. The amazing ones are, those that don't know it!

Anthony Liccione

#20. Then, as if that's not enough, then they declare that my wife is Jewish or Serbian. Luckily for me, she never was either, although many wives are. And so on and so forth spreading lies.

Franjo Tudjman

#21. Let me let you in on a little secret. There is no such thing as an international community. There are self-maximizing, self-interested states that will push their interests as far as possible.

Condoleezza Rice