Alija Izetbegovic

A starry sky is equally interesting to a scientist, a mystic, an ethics scholar, and a poet. Looking at the stars, each…

— Alija Izetbegovic

“Men are not gentle and graceful beings solely oriented towards good. They are physical, coarse, contradictory, stretched between desires and temptations. In…

— Alija Izetbegović

Religion, as it is understood in the West, does not lead toward progress, and science does not lead toward humanism.

— Alija Izetbegovic

“Does evil come from inside ,from the dark depths of the human soul or does it come from outside ,from the objective…

— Alija Izetbegović

“And slavery is the worst of all outcomes ,worse than war”

— Alija Izetbegović

“The mystics have always stressed the religious aspect of Islam, the rationalists the other one. All the same, both of them have…

— Alija Izetbegović

To seek trouble - this is not courage, this is madness. Courage is the willingness of man to sensibly face the troubles…

— Alija Izetbegovic

“Scientists or thinkers who try to discover the truth cannot find that higher life by thinking alone, but their own life, spent…

— Alija Izetbegović

Life is a dangerous thing. Insecurity is the price of living.

— Alija Izetbegovic

It is difficult to help a man without hurting his pride. Everyone wants to be a giver and not a receiver.

— Alija Izetbegovic

“It is known that the Quran leaves an analytical reader the impression of disarrangement, and that it seems to be a compound…

— Alija Izetbegović

“Morality is inseparable from freedom. Only free conduct is moral conduct. By negating freedom, and thus the possibility of choice, a dictatorship…

— Alija Izetbegović

In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try…

— Alija Izetbegovic

“I wouldn't wish now to digress into the philosophy of the relationship between life and logic ,but we shall agree that it…

— Alija Izetbegović

“There are only three integral views of the world: the religious, the materialistic, and the Islamic. They reflect three elemental possibilities (conscience,…

— Alija Izetbegović

When a man is ill,he has only one wish -to gain health,and when he does -then come a hundred wishes and he…

— Alija Izetbegovic

“Pretjerano čitanje ne čini nas pametnijim. Neki ljudi jednostavno 'gutaju' knjige. Oni to čine bez onih neophodnih intervala razmišljanja, koji su potrebni…

— Alija Izetbegović

“Troubles don't come alone,they like to arrive in groups”

— Alija Izetbegović

I would sacrifice peace for a sovereign Bosnia-Herzegovina ... but for that peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina I would not sacrifice sovereignty.

— Alija Izetbegovic

I took revenge on hardship from my earlier life by forgetting it.

— Alija Izetbegovic

“Was there any point in those attempts at reconciliation ? Even today,I think there was. Attempts of that kind are never pointless.”

— Alija Izetbegović

“I do not believe in the unlimited power of the majority,because tyranny of the majority is tyranny like any other.”

— Alija Izetbegović

People complain that life is short,for me it seems very long.

— Alija Izetbegovic

The ninth, the worst circle of the Inferno - Dante intended it for traitors.

— Alija Izetbegovic

The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel…

— Alija Izetbegovic