“I would sacrifice peace in order to win sovereignty for Bosnia, but fo...” — Alija Izetbegovic Quote

“I would sacrifice peace in order to win sovereignty for Bosnia, but for that peace in Bosnia, I would not sacrifice sovereignty.”

“Socialism and freedom are not compatible, regardless of repeated convincings.”

“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.”

“Our goal: the Islamization of Muslims. Our methods: to believe and to struggle.”

“I took revenge on hardship from my earlier life by forgetting it.”

“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?'”

“When the opportunity came, it was a fantastic thing for myself and my family to do, I couldn't wait to put on a Bosnia shirt, and I haven't really looked back since.”

“I first started doing service, actually, as a kid, doing service projects. Later in college, I started doing international humanitarian work that brought me to places like Bosnia, Rwanda.”

“My mum said: 'Germany is our second home' and it's true. Germany gave us their open hands. I don't know which country could have done that, at that time, to welcome refugees from Bosnia.”

“Before I became a SEAL, I'd done humanitarian work around the world - with refugee families in Bosnia, with unaccompanied children in Rwanda, with kids who lost limbs to land mines in Cambodia.”

“In the case of Bosnia, studies showed that turning to religion was a consequence of post-war depression and dissatisfaction.”

“When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it was a means of thought resuscitation.”