Europe Quotes - 4
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If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.
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The age of chivalry isgone.That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Edmund Burke— 1790 Reflections on the Revolution in France.
Wearepart ofthe communityof Europe, and wemust do our dutyas such.
— 1888 Speech,10 Apr.
In America everything goes and nothing matters, while in Europe nothing goes and everything matters.
— 1983 Interview in Time, Nov.
During the first quarter of the last century, seaside resorts became the fashion, even in those countries of Northern Europe within the minds of whose people the sea had hitherto held the role of the devil, the cold and voracious hereditary foe of humanity.
karen blixen— "The Deluge at Norderney"
In Europe and in America, people are now more interested in the cost of quality and in systems of quality-audit. But in Japan, we are keeping very strong interest to improve quality by use of methods which you started....when we improve quality we also improve productivity, just as you told us in 1950 would happen.
w. edwards deming— p. 2 (Out Of The Crisis (1982))
Being seen as the best striker in Europe doesn't spur me on—it's helping my team to success. That's my only aim. I'm not a machine.
thierry henry— After being critised over his poor form.
The Europeans are … making a choice that will inevitably give Europe more geopolitical clout—at the expense of American primacy. … And the impetus will come not just from Europe's new ambition, which will gather slowly, but also from America's domestic politics and its schizophrenic reaction to the rise of Europe.
charles a. kupchan— Chapter four: "The Rise of Europe"
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
— Quoted in Maxwell, Bill (2002-07-07). "In gloomy times, let's try to find a sense of humor". St. Petersburg Times. Retrieved on 2008-10-04.
Germany, which has lately united 80 million Germans, has submitted certain neighboring countries to her supremacy and gained military strength in many aspects, and thus has become, as clearly can be seen, a dangerous rival to principal imperialistic powers in Europe — England and France. That is why they declared war on Germany on a pretext of fulfilling the obligations given to Poland. It is now clearer than ever, how remote the real aims of the cabinets in these countries were from the interests of defending the now disintegrated Poland or Czechoslovakia.
vyacheslav molotov— Molotov's report on (29 March 1940), after the Polish defeat, as quoted in the weekly Soviet newspaper Moscow News, published by Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga (1 April 1940)
I feel and know that the Repeal [of the Act of Union 1801] must lead to the dismemberment of this great empire; must make Great Britain a fourth-rate power in Europe, and Ireland a savage wilderness.
robert peel— Speech in the House of Commons (April 1834).
Happiness is a new idea in Europe.
louis antoine de saint-just— Le bonheur est une idée neuve en Europe.
— Sur le mode d'exécution du décret contre les ennemis de la Révolution, speech to the National Convention (March 3, 1794).
The bureaucratic method of building an integrated Europe has exhausted its potential.
george soros— "Can Europe Work? A Plan to Rescue the Union" in Foreign Affairs (September/October 1996)
[The English ruling classes are] Freemasons thoroughly infected by Juda. The British people must be liberated from the Antichrist Juda. We must drive Juda out of England just as he has been chased out of the Continent...Juda's plan has been smashed to pieces and they themselves swept out of the European Continent! [Europe is] consolidating and closing itself off from British influences after the elimination of the British and the Jews!
— Letter to Alwina Grafin von der Goltz (July/August 1940), quoted in John C. G. Röhl, The Kaiser and his Court: Wilhelm II and the Government of Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 211-212.
It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American argument or parody their political leadership.
tony blair— Speech at the Lord Mayor's Banquet, 15 November 2004Urging Europe to stop ridiculing American President George W. Bush.
We must build a kind of United States of Europe.
winston churchill— Speech at Zurich University (September 19, 1946) (partial text) ([2])
There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].
charles james fox— Letter to Lord Holland (9 January 1804), quoted in L. G. Mitchell, Charles James Fox (London: Penguin, 1997), p. 194.
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago. […] The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the Iron Curtain that divided Germany and Europe, and indeed the world, into two blocs.
angela merkel— Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel in an Exchange of Toasts on June 07, 2011.
I do not know if the doctrine that the nation-state arose in the 19th century was still being taught:;... but it is erroneous. The nation-state reaches back far into the origins of Europe itself and perhaps beyond. If Europe was not always a Europe of nations, it was always a Europe in which nations existed, and were taken for granted, as a basic form of the State.
enoch powell— The Daily Telegraph (9 June 1975), from Enoch Powell on 1992 (Anaya, 1989), p. 144.
Now, you're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.
Donald Rumsfeld— January, 2003 [7]
This in turn suggests an answer to our question: what happened between the birth of De Sade and the birth of Krafft-Ebbing? The rise of the novel taught Europe to use its imagination. And when imagination was applied to sex, the result was the rise of pornography -- and of "sexual perversion."
colin wilson— p. 86 (The Misfits (1988))
The significant contribution to mathematics we owe to the Arabs was to absorb Greek and Hindu mathematics, preserve it, and ultimately, through events we have yet to look in, transmit it to Europe. (...) In Spain the Arabs were constantly attacked and finally conquered in 1492 by the Christians; this ended the mathematical and scientific activity in the region.
— Morris Kline, Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times, Oxford University Press, 1990, p.197
TM, Erhard Seminars Training (est), and the Rajneesh Foundation are currently the most visible NRMs offering a release service to clients in Western Europe, but a large number of smaller groups are also in operation.
— James A. Beckford (1987). New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change. SAGE Publications Ltd. p. 44. ISBN 0803985916.
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic , an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw , Berlin , Prague , Vienna , Budapest , Belgrade , Bucharest and Sofia , all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow .
— Winston Churchill, speaking in 1946 at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, United States
— Sinews of Peace. (2009, July 29). In Wikisource, The Free Library.
There are several kinds of monsters in western popular culture today: werewolves, vampires , morlaks, the blood-countess and other creatures of the underworld. (...) Vampirism, and (...) monstrosity has been fundamentally intertwined with Eastern Europe (...) [I]s it only an accident that the four most enduring popular culture villains, Frankenstein , Count Dracula ( Nosferatu ), the Morlak and the Golem had emerged in Europe during modernity (...)? That all four creatures are connected somehow to Eastern European regions?
— Kürti, László (2009). "The Symbolic Construction of the Monstruous – The Elizabeth Bathory Story" (PDF). Narodna umjetnost 46 (1). Retrieved on 2009-12-01.
Strangely, it is always America that is described as degenerate and 'fascist', while it is solely in Europe that actual dictatorships and totalitarian regimes spring up.
— Jean-François Revel, "Europe's Anti-American Obsession" (2003), The View From Abroad, The American Enterprise.
That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.
— Friedrich Nietzsche (Divisions of Europe)
As to the territorial limits of Europe, they may seem relatively clear on its seaward flanks, but many island groups far to the north and west Svalbard, the Faroes, Iceland, and the Madeira and Canary islands are considered European, while Greenland (though tied politically to Denmark) is conventionally allocated to North America. Furthermore, the Mediterranean coastlands of North Africa and southwestern Asia also exhibit some European physical and cultural affinities. Turkey and Cyprus in particular, while geologically Asian, possess elements of European culture and may be regarded as parts of Europe.
— Encyclopædia Britannica, Europe
Even in Europe and America, this wistful theosophy has won millions upon millions of followers, from lonely women and tired men to Schopenhauer and Emerson.
— Will Durant, Astronomical Dating of Events & Select Vignettes from Indian History.
