Bulgaria

🇧🇬Vasil Levski

Social Activism

1837–1873

"If I win - I win for all our people, if I lose - I lose only myself."

🇧🇬Parteniy Zografski

Religion

1818–1876

"Our language, as it is well known, is divided into two main dialects, of which one is spoken in Bulgaria and Thrace, and the other one in Macedonia."

🇧🇬Iliyana Tsanova

Politics

b. 1976

"I'm surprised that in the era when we are talking about cryptocurrency and blockchain and self driving cars, we're still talking about equality between men and women."

🇧🇬Kapka Kassabova

Literature

b. 1973

"The trauma of half a century of social life based on lies is going to take several generations to heal, if it heals at all."

🇧🇬Radosveta Vassileva

Law

b. 1985

"...it is certain that Bulgarian football hooliganism is just the visible part of a more complex issue: corruption and xenophobia have embraced each other."

"Work hard and you will make it; at the end, it's all about your design philosophy."

🇧🇬Yane Sandanski

Social Activism

1872–1915

"As I worked in the mountains, I will continue to work for the sacred fatherland with heart and soul in any kind of duty for which the fatherland employs me and any kind of task the fatherland expects from me."

🇧🇬Ventseslav Konstantinov

Literature

1940–2019

"The translator constantly learns new things about himself."

🇧🇬Todor Zhivkov

Politics

1911–1998

"Now every day, every hour, everywhere there is mat'rial for meeting demonstrations!"

🇧🇬Gancho Tsenov

1870–1949

"In the time of his reign , the Thracian Vitalian kept under some pretense, saying, because of the exiled bishops, and took Thrace, Scythia and Moesia, to Varna and Anhialo, leading a large number of Huns and Bulgars"

🇧🇬Boris III of Bulgaria

Politics

1894–1943

"Your king is entirely too neutral to suit us. Anyway, there is no place for kings in the new European order."

🇧🇬Boyko Borissov

Politics

b. 1959

"Bulgarians then went on strikes, made barricades and burned tyres while others were working. Now its is we who are working, while other countries burn their own cities and cause problems for themselves"

🇧🇬Aleksandar Stamboliyski

Politics

1879–1923

"I am neither a Serb nor a Bulgarian, I am a South Slav."

🇧🇬Irina Bokova

Politics

b. 1952

"Every child and adult should have the skills and the tools to respond to the challenges of the world today and make the most of the opportunities that are available."

🇧🇬Gotse Delchev

Social Activism

1872–1903

"I understand the world solely as a field for cultural competition among the peoples."

🇧🇬Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean

Music

b. 1960

"Home page at American University in Bulgaria"