Quotes by Alija Izetbegovic - Page 1

Islam is a way of living rather than a way of thinking.
Alija Izetbegovic / Politician
Islam
Thinking
Rather
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We Bosniaks would for sure fight for integrity of Bosnia.
Alija Izetbegovic / Politician
Bosnia
Integrity
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History sometimes makes fun of us and our best intentions.
Alija Izetbegovic / Politician
Best Intentions
Intentions
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Life is a dangerous thing. Insecurity is the price of living.
Alija Izetbegovic / Politician
Dangerous Thing
Life Is A
Price
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I took revenge on hardship from my earlier life by forgetting it.
Alija Izetbegovic / Politician
Hardship
Revenge
Earlier
Forgetting
Took
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The ninth, the worst circle of the Inferno - Dante intended it for traitors.
Alija Izetbegovic / Politician
Inferno
Worst
Circle
Dante
Ninth
Intended
Traitors
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Socialism and freedom are not compatible, regardless of repeated convincings.
Alija Izetbegovic / Politician
Compatible
Socialism
Regardless
Repeated
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Our goal: the Islamization of Muslims. Our methods: to believe and to struggle.
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Struggle
Methods
Muslims
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It is difficult to help a man without hurting his pride. Everyone wants to be a giver and not a receiver.
Alija Izetbegovic / Politician
Giver
Pride
Receiver
Hurting
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Advantages of freedom do not have to be proved by something outside freedom itself. It is its own underwriter.
Alija Izetbegovic / Politician
Advantages
Proved
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Religion, as it is understood in the West, does not lead toward progress, and science does not lead toward humanism.
Alija Izetbegovic / Politician
Religion
Science
Humanism
Progress
Understood
West
Lead
Toward
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I would sacrifice peace in order to win sovereignty for Bosnia, but for that peace in Bosnia, I would not sacrifice sovereignty.
Alija Izetbegovic / Politician
Bosnia
Order
Sacrifice
Sovereignty
Win
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To seek trouble - this is not courage, this is madness. Courage is the willingness of man to sensibly face the troubles he cannot avoid.
Alija Izetbegovic / Politician
Courage
Madness
Willingness
Avoid
Seek
Sensibly
Troubles
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All man's failures are either because of the religious denial of man's biological needs or the materialistic denial of man's spiritual desires.
Alija Izetbegovic / Politician
Denial
Materialistic
Needs
Religious
Spiritual
Biological
Desires
Either
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Whether man is a product of evolution or is 'created' becomes the question, 'Who is man? Is he part of the world or something different from it?'
Alija Izetbegovic / Politician
Evolution
Becomes
Product
Question
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We have no rational evidence that there exists another world, but we have a clear feeling that man does not exist only to produce and to consume.
Alija Izetbegovic / Politician
Clear
Evidence
Produce
Rational
Man World Only
Consume
Exist
Exists
Feeling
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As far as the sovereignty of Bosnia-Hercegovina is concerned we agreed to have limited sovereignty for a limited time and that is clear from the Dayton Agreement.
Alija Izetbegovic / Politician
Concerned
Limited Time
Sovereignty
Agreed
As Far As
Dayton
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A starry sky is equally interesting to a scientist, a mystic, an ethics scholar, and a poet. Looking at the stars, each experiences something different, and each sees his own picture.
Alija Izetbegovic / Politician
Ethics
Mystic
Poet
Scholar
Sky
Stars
Picture
Equally
Experiences
Sees
Starry
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The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with.
Alija Izetbegovic / Politician
Bosnia
Injustice
International
International Community
Pushing
Community People Feel
Expense
Muslim
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When you are in prison, you have but one desire: freedom. If you fall ill in prison, you do not think about freedom - you think about health. Health is, therefore, more important than freedom.
Alija Izetbegovic / Politician
Desire
Fall
Ill
Prison
Therefore
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In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.
Alija Izetbegovic / Politician
Active
Cards
Helpless
Influence
Trump
Although
Negotiations
Object
Powers
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I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.
Alija Izetbegovic / Politician
God
Inspirational
Truth
Lying
Ugly
Pretty
Help
Instead
Lies
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All in all this is a difficult political struggle which will go on for years, in which our people won't die anymore; I'm not sure how much we will be able to win, but I'm certain that we won't loose anything that we have now.
Alija Izetbegovic / Politician
Struggle
Anymore
How Much
Loose
Our People
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Has it ever happened to you that you actually like a rogue more than a so-called honest citizen? Have you ever wondered why? I believe that this can only be so because a rogue is more original and more his own. He is what he is.
Alija Izetbegovic / Politician
Believe I Believe More
Citizen
Rogue
So-Called
Wondered
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Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those 'others'. Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.
Alija Izetbegovic / Politician
Bosnia
Complicated
Nationalism
Racism
Strong
Three
Religions
Supposed
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There are only three integral views of the world: the religious, the materialistic, and the Islamic. They reflect three elemental possibilities (conscience, nature, and man), each of them manifesting itself as Christianity, materialism, and Islam.
Alija Izetbegovic / Politician
Christianity
Conscience
Islam
Materialism
Views
Nature Man World
Elemental
Integral
Manifesting
Possibilities
Reflect
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