Americans Quote by Annie Ward

Americans and Englishmen, when they become acquainted with the Balkans, feel an astonished contempt when they study the mutual enmities of Bulgarians and Serbs,…

— Bertrand Russell

“Well, that is all the notes and there is not much else in the paper of any importance. I never take much interest in…

— L.M. Montgomery

“This book is not a scholarly volume, it is not a piece of investigative journalism, and most emphatically it is not a work of…

— Andrej Grubačić

“The role of race cannot be understated in an era of fervent social Darwinism. For decades the Balkans had enacted in microcosm the racial…

— Paul Ham

The people of the Balkans are like a dysfunctional family. We may fight and argue, but in the end we are family.

— Vlade Divac

“Europe has another meaning for me. Every time I mention that word, I see the Bosnian family in front of me, living far away…

— Slavenka Drakulić

“I feel absolutely no loyalty to Serbian, Croatian, or Bosnian national causes. I have no other emotion but utter contempt for people who helped…

— Andrej Grubačić

I distrust all multiculturalism, liberal or conservative. The Balkans amply demonstrate the perils of Balkanization.

— Charles Krauthammer

“of whitewashed office buildings and apartments crammed into the Greek capital. It was then—with his eyes wide open—the same vision had appeared to him,…

— Tim LaHaye

“The Balkans I know is the Balkans from below: a space of bogoumils- these medieval heretics who fought against the Crusades and churches- and…

— Andrej Grubačić

It is now necessary to face the truth and to acknowledge against all prejudices that the struggle that the Albanian tribe is leading today…

— Dimitrije Tucovic

“Most Albanians who took up arms to challenge Serbian oppression did not object to one ethnic group bullying all the others; they simply wanted…

— Iain King