"The outbreak of the war had nothing to do with individuals. The war had deep roots, including the disruptive effects of rapid industrialization in old feudal societies. ... Experience in the Balkans had taught us that a state can be born in war, and also can be destroyed in war. We wanted to destroy Austria-Hungary."

"You come home, make coffee, sit in an armchair, and there is silence around you. It's up to you to decide what freedom or solitude is."

"I don't like looking at myself in the mirror. I'm not photographing myself. I've never liked to be photographed. I don't like watching my movies."

"I don't know how to praise myself. I don't know how to love myself."

"Medieval India, before the Moslem invasion, was a richly imaginative culture, one of the half-dozen most advanced civilizations of all time. Its sculptures were vigorous and sensual, its architecture ornate and spellbinding. And these were indigenous achievements and not, as in the case of many of the more celebrated high-points of Moslem culture, relics of pre-Moslem civilizations that Moslems had overrun."

"Moslem invaders began entering India in the early 8th century, on the orders of Hajjaj, the governor of what is now Iraq. (Sound familiar?) Starting in 712 the raiders, commanded by Muhammad Qasim, demolished temples, shattered sculptures, plundered palaces, killed vast numbers of men - it took three whole days to slaughter the inhabitants of the city of Debal - and carried off their women and children to slavery, some of it sexual."

"Kurti and his extremists should not think that in the future they will succeed in banning Serbs in Kosovo from voting, notably in April 3 (2022 Serbian general) elections."