Quotes

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — for ever.

He who is the cause of another becoming powerful is ruined.

It is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with.

What great or glorious deed could we have performed if we had sat at ease in Macedonia?

Killing one man everyone calls unjust. But when another state is attacked, they do not see it as wrong; they praise it and call it just. Can they be said to know the difference between justice and injustice?

The best thing of all is to take the enemy’s country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

All warfare is based on deception.

To make war a mere contest of machines without men and without loss of life.

When all darkness shall be dissipated by the light of science, when all nations shall be merged into one, and patriotism shall be identical with religion, when there shall be one language, one country, one end, then the dream will have become reality.

But for the hero of Topola, Karađorđe the immortal, every obstacle stood in the way, yet he reached the great goal: he raised the people, baptised the land and broke the barbarian chains, called the Serbs back from the dead and breathed life into the Serbian soul.

Heroism is the emperor over every evil, and the sweetest drink of the soul, on which whole generations grow drunk.

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever.