Famous quotes containing the words history of, history, rump and/or yugoslavia:
“There is no history of how bad became better.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“A poets object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.”
—Aristotle (384323 B.C.)
“Who clipped the lions wings
And flead his rump and pared his claws?
Thought Burbank, meditating on
Times ruins, and the seven laws.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“International relations is security, its trade relations, its power games. Its not good-and-bad. But what I saw in Yugoslavia was pure evil. Not ethnic hatredthats only like a label. I really had a feeling there that I am observing unleashed human evil ...”
—Natasha Dudinska (b. c. 1967)