Talk:Albania

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• If you want a hundred Italians to be quiet, shoot one. If you want a hundred Albanians to be quiet, you must shoot ninety-nine.
  • Lord Byron

• They are an iron race, as hard as the rocks they inhabit
  • Lord Byron

• The Albanians have been born to resist and disobey.
  • Dursam Bey, during the second Siege of Krujë (1466)

• They are Nietzsche's over-men, these primitive Albanians — something between kings and tigers.
  • Henry Noel Brailsford

• The true history of mankind will be written only when Albanians participate in its writing.
  • Maximilian Lambertz, Albanien erzählt: ein Einblick in die albanische Literatur (Berlin 1956) -- source for translation? Ficaia (talk) 15:37, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

Tangential

• To my mind, imperialism is something very simple and clear and it exists as a fact when one country, a large country, seizes a certain strip of territory and subjects to its laws a certain number of men and women against their will. Soviet policy after the beginning of the second world war was precisely this. There is no difficulty in pointing this out, but the difficulty lies in the fact that when one quotes from memory one will forget one or other argument. Because the Russians, thanks to the second world war, have quite simply annexed the three Baltic States, taken a piece of Finland, a piece of Rumania, a piece of Poland, a piece of Germany and, thanks to a well thought-out policy composed of internal subversion and external pressure, have established Governments justifiably styled as Satellites, in Warsaw, Prague, Budapest, Sofia, Bucharest, Tirana and East Berlin - I except Belgrade where the regime is unique thanks to the energy and courage of Marshal Tito. If all this does not constitute manifestations of imperialism, if all this is not the result of a policy consciously willed and consciously pursued, an imperialist aim, then indeed we shall have to start to go back to a new discussion and a new definition of words.
  • Paul-Henri Spaak, "The Atlantic Alliance and its Future," 14 September 1957

• I am one of the servants of Allah. We do our duty of fighting for the sake of the religion of Allah. It is also our duty to send a call to all the people of the world to enjoy this great light and to embrace Islam and experience the happiness in Islam. Our primary mission is nothing but the furthering of this religion. ... Let not the West be taken in by those who say that Muslims choose nothing but slaughtering. Their brothers in East Europe, in Turkey and in Albania have been guided by Allah to submit to Islam and to experience the bliss of Islam. Unlike those, the European and the American people and some of the Arabs are under the influence of Jewish media.
  • Osama bin Laden, Interview with ABC reporter John Miller (May 1998)

• Only recently did Euronews Albania, a subsidiary of Euronews France, take out from its YouTube channel discriminatory expressions against the Jehovah’s Witnesses used by [evangelical pastor Paulin Vilajeti] in its popular talk show “Good Morning Albanians,” as ordered by the Commissioner for Protection Against Discrimination (CPAD) on January 25, 2024 (“Bitter Winter” has seen a copy of the decision).
  • Massimo Introvigne, "Albania: Evangelical Pastor Found Guilty of “Hate Speech” Against the Jehovah’s Witnesses", Bitter Winter (May 11, 2024)

• Here's a twist: The mighty capitalist U.S. could take some economic lessons from the tiny Balkan country Albania, which for decades writhed under the cruel rule of a Stalinist dictatorship. Today Albania has the most vibrant economy in Europe. It was virtually the only European nation to grow in 2009. Too bad science hasn't advanced far enough to enable us to clone Berisha so we could replace all the economic officials in our government today.
  • Steve Forbes, [1] (10 July 2010)