Serbia Quotes

• Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past.

  Ivica Dacic

  Past, Balkans, Deals

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

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• 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

  Imagine, Cradle, Kosovo

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• 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

  Alive, Spirit, Dictator

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

  Novak Djokovic

  Basketball, Sports, Football

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

  Novak Djokovic

  Dream, Children, World

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  John Burns

  Fighting, Four, Should

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• 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

  Country, Order, People

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• 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

  War, Fighting, Cutting

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• 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

  War, Years, Long

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

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• 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

  Country, Government, Greek

  "Mr. Gladstone and The Balkan Confederation". "The Sunday Times" Newspaper, February 6, 1897.

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• 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

  Yugoslavia, Doe, Republic

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• 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

  Independent, Government, Body

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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

  Slobodan Milosević

  Heart, Kosovo

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

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• Serbia stands firmly on the EU path.

  Ivica Dacic

  Path, Stand Firm

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• 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

  Sea, Lines, Want

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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

  Marina Abramovic

  Country

  "Interview: Marina Abramović" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2010.

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• 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

  Past, Offering, Blood

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

  Ben Cardin

  Moving, Opportunity, Europe

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• 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

  War, Heart, Wine

  "The Great War". David Lloyd George's Speech delivered at the Queen's Hall, London, September 19, 1914.

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• 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

  Ethnicity, Long, Thought Provoking

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• 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

  Running, Player, Tennis

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• 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

  Country, Responsibility, Decision

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• 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

  Determination, Brother, Government

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• 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

  Running, Thinking, Europe

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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

  Ivica Dacic

  Decision, Citizens, Injustice

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