“The Balkans aren't worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier.” — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888). — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The Balkans arent worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier. — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans — Otto Von Bismarck Copy Share Image
There are some common problems in the Balkans in the settlement of which Bulgaria should also participate. — Todor Zhivkov Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most troubling area in the world goes from the Balkans through the Middle East and in Central Asia. — Brent Scowcroft Copy Share Image
There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal… — Ivica Dacic Copy Share Image
“Balkanization.. had come to denote the parcelization of large & viable political units but also had become a synonym for a reversion… — Maria Todorova Copy Share Image
(Milosevic's passing) should not keep us from our efforts to provide peace and stability in the Balkans; on the contrary, it should… — Frank-Walter Steinmeier Copy Share Image
Grouping and mutuality of countries and peoples in the Balkans is the only road that leads to economic, national and political liberation. — Dimitrije Tucovic Copy Share Image
For people may not know what they think about politics in the Balkans, or the vexed question of men and women, but… — Louis Simpson Copy Share Image
There a lot of occasions when Albanians cause trouble, but then we are also very nice people. People sometimes forget that there… — Granit Xhaka Copy Share Image
If you go to former Yugoslav states, the Balkan states, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia, the situation is dire. Not to mention Bosnia,… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
“The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
We have carried out the attempted premeditated murder of an entire nation. We were caught in that criminal act and have been… — Dimitrije Tucovic Copy Share Image
All these wars, all these territories. For example, Macedonia is a disputed territory, and there are people directly to the west of… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
I think that's the nature of the region, not even simply Eastern Europe but the Balkans. They are their own region. They… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
One of the things people often say about America is that it's a such a young country, relatively, and its problem -… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
Take a look at the bombing of Serbia in 1999. The US was quite open about the reasons for the bombing. A… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In a Balkan country, not so many years ago, a party which had been beaten by a narrow margin in a general… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The Balkans I know is the Balkans from below: a space of bogoumils- these medieval heretics who fought against the Crusades and… — Andrej Grubačić Copy Share Image
Americans and Englishmen, when they become acquainted with the Balkans, feel an astonished contempt when they study the mutual enmities of Bulgarians… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“In this city, the victors had delusions of grandeur. It was visual. Across the street from the hotel stood City Hall, sporting… — Peter Maass Copy Share Image
I've just finished a series of Olivia Manning novels. She's best known for two trilogies: Balkan Trilogy and Levant Trilogy. The six… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
“Bosnia is known as the powder keg of Yugoslavia, which itself is known as the powder keg of the Balkans, which in… — Peter Maas Copy Share Image
From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective governance leading… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
In terms intellectually, [what] shaped my life was the whole Munich thing [the Munich Agreement] that I knew about all my life,… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
It is clear that several countries, in the Balkans for example, need to be considered countries of safe origin. But others like,… — Paolo Gentiloni Copy Share Image
“The people were divided into the persecuted and those who persecuted them. That wild beast, which lives in man and does not… — Peter Maass Copy Share Image
“The neo-cons, or some of them, decided that they would back Clinton when he belatedly decided for Bosnia and Kosovo against Milosevic,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Hitherto, the Palestinians had been relatively immune to this Allahu Akhbar style. I thought this was a hugely retrograde development. I said… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country, Balkan country, Caucasian country, neighbor to Africa, Black Sea country,… — Ahmet Davutoglu Copy Share Image
Remember all those references to Macedonia as the oasis of peace in the Balkans. You only really appreciate it when you have… — Boris Trajkovski Copy Share Image
Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
I forced myself to watch Spanish TV and listen to Spanish radio all the time. I think I'm lucky because, for whatever… — Ivan Rakitic Copy Share Image
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