Slobodan Milosevic Quotes & Sayings

“At the time when this famous historical battle was fought in Kosovo, the people were looking at the stars, expecting aid from them. Now, six centuries later, they are looking at the stars again, waiting to conquer them.”

“Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.”

“Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail.”

“Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.”

“For as long as multinational communities have existed, their weak point has always been the relations between different nations.”

“It is difficult to say today whether the Battle of Kosovo was a defeat or a victory for the Serbian people, whether thanks to it we fell into slavery or we survived in this slavery.”

“It is the utmost necessity that this congress be a congress of unity.”

“It should be clear to all, after the past ten years, that NATO isn't attacking Serbia because of Milosevic; it is attacking Milosevic because of Serbia.”

“NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated. You are not willing to sacrifice lives to achieve our surrender. But we are willing to die to defend our rights as an independent sovereign nation.”

“The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.”