Balkans Quotes
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For people may not know what they think about politics in the Balkans, or the vexed question of men and women, but everyone has a definite opinion about the flavour of shredded coconut.
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More Balkans Quotes
One of nature's Balkans.
Charles Curran— Of his friend and fellow journalist, Rebecca West. Quoted by V S Pritchett in the NewYorker, 21 Dec1987.
The only thing the Balkans export is history.
— 1995 WAMU broadcast, Washington, 25 Nov.
If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans.
— 1898 Attributed deathbed remark. Quoted in the House of Commons,16 Aug1945.
While Financier George Soros was investing money in Kosovo's reconstruction, the George Soros Foundation for an Open Society had opened a branch office in Pristina establishing the Kosovo Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) as part of the Soros' network of "non-profit foundations" in the Balkans.
michel chossudovsky— Chapter 17, Dismantling Former Yugoslavia, p. 273
Grouping and mutuality of countries and peoples in the Balkans is the only road that leads to economic, national and political liberation.
dimitrije tucović— Prva balkanska socijaldemokratska konferencija (u Izabrani spisi, knjiga II, str. 23) Prosveta, Beograd, 1950.
Unlimited enmity of the Albanian people against Serbia is the foremost real result of the Albanian policies of the Serbian government. The second and more dangerous result is the strengthening of two big powers in Albania, which have the greatest interests in the Balkans.
dimitrije tucović— Review of "Serbia and Albania" by Dimitrije Tucovic
The next great european war will begin over some damned foolish thing in the Balkans
— Otto von Bismark, attributed.
...Certain proto-populations occupying distinct areas of the Balkans could be distinguished on the territories of the cultural groups: in western part of the Balkans the proto-Illyrians, in the east the proto Thracians, in the south the Hellenes (i.e: Greeks), in the northern part of the Balkans the proto Daco-Mysians and in the southwest of the Central Balkans the proto Bryges.
— "Arheologija" magazine, No 1, Skopje 1995, "Bryges on the central Balkans in the 2nd and 1st millennium b.c." (summary)
A Slavic-speaking people, todays ethnic Macedonians, are descendants of Slavs who settled in the Balkans during the seventh century AD.
— Karen Dawisha and Bruce Parrott, "Politics, Power and the Struggle for Democracy in South-East Europe (Democratization and Authoritarianism in Post-Communist Societies)", Cambridge University Press (1997)
While Financier George Soros was investing money in Kosovo's reconstruction, the George Soros Foundation for an Open Society had opened a branch office in Pristina establishing the Kosovo Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) as part of the Soros' network of "non-profit foundations" in the Balkans.
— Chapter 17, Dismantling Former Yugoslavia, p. 273
