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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
Question
World
Evolution
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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. "
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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. "
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" Islam is a way of living rather than a way of thinking. "
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" Socialism and freedom are not compatible, regardless of repeated convincings. "
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" Advantages of freedom do not have to be proved by something outside freedom itself. It is its own underwriter. "
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" History sometimes makes fun of us and our best intentions. "
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" I took revenge on hardship from my earlier life by forgetting it. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" Our goal: the Islamization of Muslims. Our methods: to believe and to struggle. "
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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. "
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Ethics
" The ninth, the worst circle of the Inferno - Dante intended it for traitors. "
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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. "
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" Religion, as it is understood in the West, does not lead toward progress, and science does not lead toward humanism. "
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Religion
Science
" Life is a dangerous thing. Insecurity is the price of living. "
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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. "
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Man
Madness
" 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. "
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Ugly
People
" It is difficult to help a man without hurting his pride. Everyone wants to be a giver and not a receiver. "
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Difficult
Help
" 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. "
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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. "
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Health
" 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. "
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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. "
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" We Bosniaks would for sure fight for integrity of Bosnia. "
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