Hungary Quotes - Page 2

• The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies.

  Franz Liszt

  Numbers, Musician, Firsts

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• When I was in Hungary in December I was looking at student films and I could not tell which ones were shot on film and which ones were shot digitally. I think that is because the filmmakers in Europe go to four years of film school and learn the techniques.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  School, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I remember when I was 14, I went to race in Hungary, and I went to a concert, and they were playing Bob Marley songs, and I thought, "Wow, this guy is so special." It's Marley every time.

  Usain Bolt

  Song, Race, Guy

  "Usain Bolt talks secret post-season parties, fame and the fear of losing". Interview with Alastair Campbell, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. August 15, 2016.

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• Just as that little opening in the Iron Curtain that Hungary created caused a flood of people out, and ultimately the beginning of the end of communism in Europe, if you could get refugee flows coming out of North Korea, while there'd be a very difficult humanitarian problem in the short run, both for China and South Korea, in the long run it would lead to reunification.

  John Bolton

  Running, Korea, Europe

  Source: humanevents.com

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• I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.

  Andy Grove

  Growing Up, Nice, Teenager

  "Andy Grove: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• For two years now, my office has had the honour and the privilege of sponsoring seminars on the functioning of government in this country for Eastern Europeans. These seminars and exchanges have brought together representatives from such nations as Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech and Slovak Republic, Roumania, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and the Ukraine, all of them anxious to learn what makes a society as diverse as Canada work and how our institutions make it governable.

  John Allen Fraser

  Country, Government, Ukraine

  "The House of Commons at Work". Book by John Fraser, 1993.

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• There is this huge Roma problem in Europe. There are a lot of Romas who are discriminated against in countries like the Czech Republic or Hungary. They are an ethnic minority that in Europe everyone loves to hate.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Country, Hate, Czech Republic

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• The troblemakers in Hungary are the Jews... they demoralize our country and they are the leaders of the revolutionary gang that is torturing Hungary.

  Jozsef Mindszenty

  Country, Leader, Revolutionary

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• It was a bit of a surprise for us that we had problems in Hungary. But in reality, I think the car could have been pretty competitive with a trouble-free race.

  Fernando Alonso

  Reality, Thinking, Race

  "Turkish GP: Renault preview". Motorsport.com Interview, www.motorsport.com. August 15, 2005.

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• Because we can't comprehend it, and that's what allows us to do it again. And it is the normal, it's the average person that can do this. Again, in an imaginary other universe, maybe we'd have done it. That's the terrible truth that lies at the heart of each of us; that imponderable, 'were I not Jewish, in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, would I have gone down on the other side?'

  Bob Geldof

  Lying, Heart, Average

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• It is in the fusion of autochthonous Jews with semi-Jewish Khazars and Kabars in the tenth century that we must seek the earliest demographic basis of the Jewish population of medieval Hungary.

  Raphael Patai

  Fusion, Population, Medieval

  Raphael Patai (2015). “The Jews of Hungary: History, Culture, Psychology”, p.29, Wayne State University Press

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• We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.” It was “illegal” to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler’s Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers. If todayI lived in a Communist country where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I would openly advocate disobeying that country's antireligious laws.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Country, Brother

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• Mr. Shaw came for a short time recently to be regarded less as an author than as an incident in the European War. In the opinion of many people it seemed as if the Allies were fighting against a combination composed of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Mr. Shaw.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  War, Fighting, Turkeys

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• In 2012, the far-right Golden Dawn won 21 seats in Greece's parliamentary election, the right-wing Jobbik gained ground in my native Hungary, and the National Front's Marine Le Pen received strong backing in France's presidential election. Growing support for similar forces across Europe points to an inescapable conclusion: the continent's prolonged financial crisis is creating a crisis of values that is now threatening the European Union itself.

  George Soros

  Strong, Money, Marine

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• When Nikita Khrushchev wrapped himself in the bloody mantle of the Czars he broke Hungary, he broke the little Communist parties over the western world, and he broke the hearts of many honest men who had trusted a little too far, a little too long.

  James Cameron

  Party, Heart, Men

  The News Chronicle, November 14, 1956.

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• ...the current Human Rights Commission's working group is made up of the Netherlands, Hungary, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. No, I'm not making that up.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Rights, Zimbabwe, Groups

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• Investors want to know how exposed a business is to climate change. The physical risks to Tesco are clear, but could be far-reaching. Freak weather in the past few months has disrupted our supply lines in Hungary, Bangladesh and Korea. Any responsible board of directors should be planning ahead, thinking through these risks, and presenting them in a clear, transparent way

  Terry Leahy

  Business, Past, Thinking

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• I'm working on a novel about a girl who grows up in the circus and her relationship with her father, who grew up in Hungary when it was under Soviet control and left during the 1956 revolution. It is told from both of their perspectives, and has been a joy (and very frustrating) to research and write. Needless to say, I am very excited about my next project!

  Liza Campbell

  Girl, Growing Up, Father

  Source: newwest.net

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• I might add how in the world can you say, or can anyone say, that it will dignify the American Negro to beg in or wade [?] in or plead in when the people in Hungary didn't beg in? They were freedom fighters. And they fought for their freedom.

  Malcolm X

  People, Add, Wade

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• In my little town, Sighet, which is in Romania, Hungary-Romania, but a real shtetl, a little [Jewish] village - and we began with the Chumash [Pentateuch], probably at age four.

  Elie Wiesel

  Real, Age, Four

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Instead of confronting its real and difficult problems and grappling honestly with a dark past, Hungary embraced a reactionary government and a self-pitying image of itself as the victimized nation, and went looking for scapegoats in the Roma, Jews, and, most recently, Syrian migrants.

  Susan Faludi

  Real, Dark, Past

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• Hungary is now on the brink of becoming a neo-fascist state.

  Susan Faludi

  Becoming, States, Fascists

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• No one is murdered in Hungary and there are no illegal arrests, but people have begun again, when they talk to you in a public place looking around to see who's listening. You see that in Slovakia, you're beginning to see that in Poland.

  David Frum

  People, Listening, Illegal

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• Speaking of Germany in 1933, I don't think you can remove yourself from politics when, in so many countries - the United States, Poland, Hungary, and many others - you've got politicians in power or vying for power who are taking tactics and elements of their appeal from the playbook of fascism.

  Adam Hochschild

  Country, Thinking, United States

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I used my talent as a speaker giving lectures to young people at schools in Hungary and I speak against hatred and anti-Semitism.

  Csanad Szegedi

  School, People, Giving

  Source: www.salon.com

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