Bosnia Quote by Paddy Ashdown Download Open image “I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.” — Paddy Ashdown ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bosnia Peacebuilding Ready Reconciliation Truth
Truth and reconciliation' are always combined, but I would split them: I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
“I realize that what happened in Bosnia could happen anywhere in the world, particularly in places that are diverse and have a history of… — Savo Heleta 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
The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as… — Alija Izetbegovic Copy Share Image
You should give no indication that we wish the three-way division of Bosnia. — Franjo Tudjman Copy Share Image
I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well. — John Keegan Copy Share Image
“Bosnia's war had its visual hallmarks. Parks that were turned into cemeteries, refugee families piled onto horse-drawn carts, stop-or-die checkpoints with mines across the… — Peter Maass Copy Share Image
I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country. — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war. — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile.… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war. — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
The multinational corporations now developing budgets often bigger than medium-sized countries — these live in a global space which is largely unregulated, not subject… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it’s a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later. Lehman… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads. — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, do not understand that… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results. — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots. — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative,… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child. — Christiane Amanpour Copy Share Image
We must not forget; but we must forgive. Suffering often such compassion from the Jewish community. It was Jewish groups in the US who… — George Soros Copy Share Image
My view is that the time has come for the international community to act on Zimbabwe in the way that it did in Bosnia.… — Raila Odinga Copy Share Image
I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my phone off. I did 5,000 miles… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
During the war, a battle was fought here, not only for the creation of a new Yugoslavia, but also a battle for Bosnia and… — Josip Broz Tito Copy Share Image
I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like Bosnia — Edward James Olmos Copy Share Image
It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
...in the eyes of her oldest friends and colleagues and extended family, she wasn't a painfully thin seventy-five-year-old gray haired woman dying of cancer-… — Will Schwalbe 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
In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent journalists. — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
