“I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.”

“A great empire cannot bring freedom by its own decay to those corners in it where a subject people are prevented from discussing the fundamentals of life. The people feel like children turned adrift to fend for themselves when the imperial routine breaks down; and they wander to and fro, given up to instinctive fears and antagonisms and exaltation until reason dares to take control. I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood. I learned now that it might follow, because an empire passed, that a world full of strong men and women and rich food and heady wine might nevertheless seem like a shadow-show: that a man of every excellence might sit by a fire warming his hands in the vain hope of casting out a chill that lived not in the flesh.”

“Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we have become what we are at this moment.”

“Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood, and you're the one I need”

“None of our republics would be anything if we weren't all together; but we have to create our own history - history of United Yugoslavia, also in the future.”

“Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?”