Lyuben Karavelov
Lyuben Stoychev Karavelov (Bulgarian: Любен Стойчев Каравелов; 1834 – 21 January 1879) was a Bulgarian writer, journalist, revolutionary and a prominent figure of the Bulgarian National Revival.
Quotes
[edit]- Don't raise your head so high holy Europe, don't be so proud of your civilization and your Christianity when you don't even have a pure heart or a clear conscience.
- Quoted in The Orient Within: Muslim Minorities and the Negotiation of Nationhood in Modern Bulgaria (2011), p. 25.
- If Russia comes to liberate, she will be received with great sympathy; but if she comes to rule, she will find many enemies.
- Quoted in Tsarist Russia and Balkan Nationalism: Russian Influence in the Internal Affairs of Bulgaria and Serbia, 1879-1886 (2022), p. vii
- Anybody who will not agree that a Turk is more inhuman than a mad dog is a Turkophile.
- Quoted in A History of Bulgarian Literature 865–1944 (2019), p. 74
- The year 1848 awakened all the European nations that were half-dead and half-asleep, as well as us, the Bulgarians. From that moment on, the Bulgarians rose up and their future lit up with eye-pleasing and joyous rays, and a secretive or, to put it plainly, instinctive feeling told them that it was time to free themselves from Turkish and Greek tyranny.
- Quoted in Hadzhi Nicho: Subrani suchinenija v 9 toma (1965), p. 290 and Revolutionary Biographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Imperial – Inter/national – Decolonial (2024), pp. 218-219
- Revolution, revolution, and only revolution is our salvation.
- Quoted in Revolutionary Biographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Imperial – Inter/national – Decolonial (2024), p. 221
- The person who wishes to work for the wellbeing of his nation should forget about himself.
- Quoted in Izbrani proizvedeniia, vol. I, (1954), p . 441 and Revolutionary Biographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Imperial – Inter/national – Decolonial (2024), p. 221
- The brotherhood of nations means the death of the tyrants.
- Quoted in Revolutionary Biographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Imperial – Inter/national – Decolonial (2024), p. 222
