Yugoslavia Quotes

• America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia...

  Bobby Fischer

  Mean, America, Looks

  Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. May 24, 1999.

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• Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.

  Slobodan Milosević

  Equality, Community, Multinationals

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

  Franjo Tuđman

  Independent, Alliances, States

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• 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

  Together, Would Be, Republic

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• 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

  Country, Transition, Three

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• 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

  Years, Tasks, Republic

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• During the war, a battle was fought here, not only for the creation of a new Yugoslavia, but also a battle for Bosnia and Herzegovina as a sovereign republic. To some generals and leaders their position on this was not quite clear. I never once doubted my stance on Bosnia. I always said that Bosnia and Herzegovina cannot belong to this or that, only to the people that lived there since the beginning of time.

  Josip Broz Tito

  War, People, Leader

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• For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.

  Tea Obreht

  Grandfather, Term, Former

  "'The Tiger's Wife:' A Young Talent Takes On Folklore". "Weekend Edition" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. March 5, 2011.

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

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Sarcastic, Food, Pork

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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

  Doe, Republic, Influence

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• 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

  Play, Russia, Iran

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• But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.

  Sydney Pollack

  Japan, Europe, Hollywood

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• 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

  Troops, Prime, Ministers

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

  Emir Kusturica

  Country, Independent, Bosnia

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• 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

  America, Play, Hustle

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• The Soviet Union came apart along ethnic lines. The most important factor in this breakup was the disinclination of Slavic Ukraine to continue under a regime dominated by Slavic Russia. Yugoslavia came apart also, beginning with a brutal clash between Serbia and Croatia, here again 'nations' with only the smallest differences in genealogy; with, indeed, practically a common language. Ethnic conflict does not require great differences; small will do.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Breakup, Russia, Ukraine

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• Kosovo is now the biggest problem confronting Yugoslavia.

  Josip Broz Tito

  Problem, Confronting, Kosovo

  "Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War". Book by Julie Mertus, August 9, 1999.

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• After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former enemies. In the space of just seventeen months, they created the borders of Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia and most of the Middle East. And I have spent my entire career — in Belfast and Sarajevo, in Beirut and Baghdad — watching the people within those borders burn.

  Robert Fisk

  Father, War, Land

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

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• In the case of Yugoslavia v. NATO, one of the charges was genocide. The U.S. appealed to the court, saying that, by law, the United States is immune to the charge of genocide, self-immunized, and the court accepted that, so the case proceeded against the other NATO powers but not against the United States.

  Noam Chomsky

  Self, Law, United States

  "Chomsky: Instead of “Illegal” Threat to Syria, U.S. Should Back Chemical Weapons Ban in All Nations". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. September 11, 2013.

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• I am a Yugoslav nationalist, aiming for the unification of all Yugoslavs, and I do not care what form of state, but it must be free from Austria.

  Gavrilo Princip

  I Dont Care, Political, Austria

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• 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

  Football, Winning, Order

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• The fact that refugees traveled through six other countries, like former Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, France, Germany, Holland, is because they like our social benefits. They like our welfare state. They know which country to pick. They're not going to stay in Hungary or in Estonia. They come to Germany, to Holland. And people sense that those are not the real refugees. And our government has spent billions of euros on them, and the Dutch people know.

  Geert Wilders

  Country, Real, Government

  Source: www1.cbn.com

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• Capitalism has been fully restored in Yugoslavia, as is well-known, but this capitalism knows how to disguise. Yugoslavia portrays itself as a socialist state, but of a special kind, as the world has never seen it before! The Titoites even boast that their state has nothing in common with the first socialist state which emerged from the socialist October Revolution and which was founded by Lenin and Stalin on the basis of the scientific theory of Marx and Engels.

  Enver Hoxha

  October Revolution, Special, World

  "Yugoslav "Self-Administration" - Capitalist Theory and Practice". "Directions of the Development of the Political System of Socialist Self-Administration", Institute of Marxist-Leninist studies of the Central Committee of the Party of Labour of Albania, Tirana, 1978.

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• 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

  Rocks, Issues, Dollars

  The Daily of the University of Washington Newspaper, May 5, 1989.

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• Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that people needed to identify more strongly with it after Tito and his awful, tricky way of leading the country.

  Emir Kusturica

  Basketball, Beautiful, Country

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