Jovan Autonomašević > Quotes

“This situation is further complicated when the linguist is confronted with speakers of Romany. The largest minority in Europe have no state of their own, and consequently no formal legal institutions or legal lexicon, although there is a formal rhetoric used before Romany ad hoc tribunals. The language professional must therefore draw on the legal terminology of the official language of the Romany speaker’s country of origin when facilitating interaction between Romany speakers and institutions in the UK.”
― Jovan Autonomašević

“For there is no true equivalence between languages, and English law differs from civil law in both its genesis and its practice.”
― Jovan Autonomašević, Dictionary of Legal Practice: Za naše ljude u Engleskoj

“Organised religion is the heroin of the masses. The unforgiving singularity of the desert allows for no deviance.”
― Jovan Autonomašević, It Shouldn't Happen to an Aid Worker

“At least with AIDS you get a 10-year suspended sentence, whereas Ebola is a full stop in ten days flat.”
― Jovan Autonomašević, It Shouldn't Happen to an Aid Worker

“The war in the Middle East has been raging for 15 years. Three once stable and prosperous countries have been reduced to destitution and lawlessness, and the poorest country in the region is undergoing starvation and the worst cholera epidemic ever recorded. The very notion of Islamic society has been thrown into absolute flux.”
― Jovan Autonomašević, It Shouldn't Happen to an Aid Worker

“The heart of darkness is to be found not on the ground where evil deeds are done, but within the great institutions where feckless fascists and fornicators accumulate privilege inside a protective bubble.”
― Jovan Autonomašević, It Shouldn't Happen to an Aid Worker