Balkans Quote by Dimitrije Tucovic

Greece is the only country in the Balkans that does not have territorial designs on its neighbors and wants to live in peace with…

— Mikis Theodorakis

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

— Vlade Divac

Remember all those references to Macedonia as the oasis of peace in the Balkans. You only really appreciate it when you have lost it.

— Boris Trajkovski

Unlimited enmity of the Albanian people against Serbia is the foremost real result of the Albanian policies of the Serbian government. The second and…

— Dimitrije Tucovic

The clash of religion. We've had to coexist for hundreds of years in Bulgaria, in the Balkans, and we still don't get along. It's…

— Miroslav Penkov

“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

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

I think that's one of the reasons for the Sarajevo conference, that Yugoslavia, Serbia, return to the family of nations because enduring peace can…

— James Wolfensohn

[The Balkans] produce more history than they can consume.

— Winston Churchill

“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

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

— Charles Krauthammer

“Macedonia, the inspiration for the French word for "mixed salad" (macedoine), defines the principle illness of the Balkans: conflicting dreams of lost imperial glory.…

— Robert D. Kaplan