Quotes

Our first endeavors are purely instinctive, promptings of an imagination vivid and undisciplined.

The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of the forces of nature to human needs.

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.

This world is a tyrant even to a tyrant, let alone to a noble soul!

But to set one’s foot on the neck of tyranny and bring it to know what is right, that is man’s most sacred duty!

Everyone is born to die but once; honour and shame live forever!

Let the struggle be unceasing, let be what cannot be!

There is no resurrection without death.

Fear for one’s life often stains one’s honour.

He whose law lies in the mace leaves tracks that reek of inhumanity.

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

No one has yet drunk a cup of honey that a cup of gall did not make bitter.