Balkans Quotes

Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.

Pat Buchanan
- War
- Been
- Balkans
After four years since the beginning of the tragedy in the Balkans, we have to recognize the painful fact that this conflict has brought nothing but grief, suffering and destruction, ... There have been no winners in this war, nor could there have been any. Everyone has lost -- the Serbs, the Croats, the Muslims and Europe as a whole.

Igor Ivanov
- War
- Lost
- Beginning

A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts in the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Middle East and many other regions.

Serge Schmemann
- Conflict
- Terror
- Insult
The important thing is that this document should allow us to achieve the objectives that we had, which is to stop the war in the Balkans. If we achieve that in the nearest future, then we can be satisfied with this resolution.

Igor Ivanov
- Important
- War
- Future
It is my worst experience, my worst trip to the Balkans.

Paddy Ashdown
- Experience
- Trip
- Balkans
The present Europe is unfinished business unless the Balkans are a part of it.

Paddy Ashdown
- Business
- Present
- Europe
I estimate a very conservative number of 25,000 dead homeboys. If 25,000 white people were killed in two decades of urban drive-bys, you could imagine there would be prime time television, there would be counseling, economic packages, truces would be negotiated by diplomats with experience in Northern Ireland or the Balkans.

B. R. Hayden
- People
- Time
- Experience
The virus is moving quite substantially into new locations. My attention is pretty much equally divided between Europe, the southern Balkans and Black Sea area, Africa and south Asia.

David Nabarro
- Moving
- Southern
- South

Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.

Shana Alexander