“Yasunari Kawabata, the Japanese Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1968, committed suicide in 1971. Two years earlier, in 1969, another great Japanese novelist, Yukio Mishima, ended his life in the same way. Since 1895 ,thirteen Japanese novelists and writers… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
As far as the sovereignty of Bosnia-Hercegovina is concerned we agreed to have limited sovereignty for a limited time and that is clear from… — Alija Izetbegovic Copy Share Image
“Marxism rejected the family and the state, but in practice it kept these institutions. Every pure religion disapproved of man's worrying about this world,… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
All man's failures are either because of the religious denial of man's biological needs or the materialistic denial of man's spiritual desires. — Alija Izetbegovic Copy Share Image
“What we call happiness is sometimes the accordance between our life and circumstances,our biography and history ,our personal aspirations and historical currents .If i… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
“In a poem, melody, or picture, we are forced with a mystery: quality in the metaphysical sense of the word. How could the difference… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
“one soldier walked infront of the troop and asked me :"President ,will there be injustice when freedom comes?", I was surprised by the question… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
“All men believe in the soul and act accordingly, even if they do not always speak up. If somebody has committed a murder and… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
“Modern man's narrow-mindedness is best shown in his belief that there is no riddle before him. His wisdom is the sum of his knowledge… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
There are only three integral views of the world: the religious, the materialistic, and the Islamic. They reflect three elemental possibilities (conscience, nature, and… — Alija Izetbegovic Copy Share Image
“All the dilemmas and questions of today were known in ethics more than 2,000 years ago. All the greatest teachers of mankind whether prophets… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
In some socialist states well-performed work is rewarded with moral stimulants instead of material ones. However, the moral stimulants cannot be explained by materialistic… — Alija Izetbegovic Copy Share Image
Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those "others". Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there… — Alija Izetbegovic Copy Share Image
