Famous quotes containing the words yugoslavia, song, contest, voting and/or history:
“International relations is security, it’s trade relations, it’s power games. It’s not good-and-bad. But what I saw in Yugoslavia was pure evil. Not ethnic hatred—that’s only like a label. I really had a feeling there that I am observing unleashed human evil ...”
—Natasha Dudinska (b. c. 1967)
“You praised and knew
the song they made was worthless
and the note,
they sung
was dross.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“The contest ends at midnight tonight
But you can submit again, and again.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.”
—Tom Stoppard (b. 1937)
“No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)