Country Quote by Mikis Theodorakis

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

Grouping and mutuality of countries and peoples in the Balkans is the only road that leads to economic, national and political liberation.

— Dimitrije Tucovic

The hopelessness of the Turkish Government should make me witness with delight its being swept out of the countries which it tortures. Next to…

— William E. Gladstone

All these wars, all these territories. For example, Macedonia is a disputed territory, and there are people directly to the west of Bulgaria who…

— Miroslav Penkov

Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible.

— Nancy Mitford

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

Greece has great strengths, but much of this potential has been wasted. That's because of a wider political system, but also because of a…

— George Papandreou

Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.

— John Fowles

Greece is not the country which has occupied and illegally invaded and illegally occupied Cyprus.

— Alexis Tsipras

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

— Vlade Divac

Without Greece, it is not possible to preserve the integrity of the European phenomenon.

— Evangelos Venizelos

Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

— Mark Twain