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 Read Quote
Advantages of freedom do not have to be proved by something outside freedom itself. It is its own underwriter. Alija Izetbegovic Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Our goal: the Islamization of Muslims. Our methods: to believe and to struggle. Alija Izetbegovic Read Quote
