Alija Izetbegovic Quotes

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get sick. Because then if you don't get well, you die.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

When you are sick, you are sick. Period.

We're all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key.

That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key.

Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards

I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows

Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.

A hospital is no place to be sick.

I can paint in jail.

I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.

On some days in prison you might just need to get out of there, but on some days - not all days, but some - you might be able to see the sky and see the blue in it.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering an image of death.

I'm a human being, and I get sick.

I really don't like being in jail.

For our kids to go to school, they must be alive, and for adults to work, they must not be in jail.

There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality.