Alija Izetbegovic

“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.”

“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.”

“The ninth, the worst circle of the Inferno - Dante intended it for traitors.”

“It is difficult to help a man without hurting his pride. Everyone wants to be a giver and not a receiver.”

“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.”

“History sometimes makes fun of us and our best intentions.”