Europe Quotes - 5
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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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I hereby commission you to carry out all the preparations with regard to a total solution of the Jewish question, in those territories of Europe that are under German influence.
HermannWilhelm Goering— 1941 Directive to the Nazi High Command, 31 Jul, quoted in William Shirer The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1962).
We are part of the community of Europe and we must do our dutyas such.
Marquess of Salisbury Robert— 1888 Speech at Caernarvon,10 Apr. In TheTimes,11 Apr.
America is God's Crucible, the great Melting Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming? God is making the American.
Israel Zangwill— 1908 The Melting Pot.
We stand for the dismantling of foreign military bases. We stand for a reduction of armed forces and armaments in areas where military confrontation is especially dangerous, above all in central Europe.
leonid brezhnev— As quoted in Voices of Tomorrow : The 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1971) by Jessica Smith, p. 30
We Germans are the most universal, the most European people of Europe.
Moses Hess— Ibid (Die europäische Triarchie (The European Triarchy))
This has been going on for 30 years. I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one, so I'm delighted to win them all. It's a royal flush.
doris lessing— After being chosen as the 2007 recipient of the Nobel Prize For Literature "BBC News", BBC, London (11 October 2007)
We may add that the Poland of the fifteenth century was one of the most civilised states of Europe.
— 'Poland. A historical sketch'
The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.
william pfaff— Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 63
We have a high standard of living. ... In Norway, we've tripled our income since 1970. In the rest of western Europe, income has merely doubled.
jens stoltenberg— Interview in Torgrim Eggen (2001). "At the Top: An interview with Jens Stoltenberg", Scanorama.
He sounded like Jean-François Revel, a French socialist writer who talks about one of the great unexplained phenomena of modern astronomy: namely, that the dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.
tom wolfe— "The Intelligent Coed's Guide to America"
I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little--not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a diving-bell.
mark twain— Ch. 42. (The Innocents Abroad (1869))
From time immemorial the mistletoe has been the object of superstitious veneration in Europe.
james frazer— Chapter 65, Balder and the Mistletoe
In the 1950s and 1960s we put several thousand nuclear weapons into Europe. To be sure, we had no precise idea of what to do with them.
henry kissinger— Statement of 1973, as quoted in Canadian and World Politics (2005) by John Ruypers, Marion Austin, Patrick Carter, and Terry G. Murphy
Of which all Europe rings from side to side.
john milton— To Cyriack Skinner, upon His Blindness (c. 1655).
The Orient that appears in Orientalism, then, is a system of representations framed by a whole set of forces that brought the Orient into Western learning, Western consciousness, and later, Western empire.… The Orient is the stage on which the whole East is confined. On this stage will appear the figures whose role it is to represent the larger whole from which they emenate. The Orient then seems to be, not an unlimited extension beyond the familiar European world, but rather a closed field, a theatrical stage affixed to Europe.
edward said— Orientalism (1978)
"Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the others."
robert anton wilson— The Earth Will Shake: The History of the Early Illuminati (The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles Vol. 1) (1982), p. 100
The third discrete racial element in Africa is the Caucasoid, which, as indicated earlier, first entered the continent in massive invasions about 15,000 years ago, certainly from Western Asia and possibly also from Europe. The descendants of those invaders who are still fully or essentially Caucasoid are the Berbers.
— Carleton S. Coon, The Living Races of Man, New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1965, p.115
It must be owned (...) that all the knowledge, whether of physic, astronomy, philosophy, or mathematics, which flourished in Europe from the tenth century, was originally derived from them; and that the Spanish Saracens, in a more particular manner, may be looked upon as the fathers of European philosophy.
— Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, An Ecclesiastical History, Samuel Etheridge, t.2, 1810, p.388
Neoclassical architecture was common in Europe by the late eighteenth century and influenced the design of public buildings. This was adopted by Company architects initially in imitation of European fashion but later acquired more intense symbolism meant to distinguish the different origins of rulers and ruled.
— Susan Neild in “Madras”, quoted in p.218
We have a high standard of living. ... In Norway, we've tripled our income since 1970. In the rest of western Europe, income has merely doubled.
— Jens Stoltenberg, interview in Torgrim Eggen (2001). "At the Top: An interview with Jens Stoltenberg", Scanorama.
(...) There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration. (...) I don't believe (...) that the Yugoslavians consider themselves dominated by the Soviet Union. I don't believe that the Rumanians consider themselves dominated by the Soviet Union. I don't believe that the Poles consider themselves dominated by the Soviet Union.
— Gerald Ford, in a U.S. presidential debate in 1976
— The Second Carter?Ford Presidential Debate. Commission on Presidential Debates. Retrieved on 2009-09-13.
Twenty-five years ago we [Poland] were eastern Europe. When we joined Nato and the EU, we became central Europe. Now, because of our resilience in the face of the financial crisis, we are northern Europe.
— Rados?aw Sikorski
— Cienski, Jan (2011-12-13). "Economy: pole position". Financial Times. Retrieved on 2013-03-28.
Ages, precedents, have long been accumulating undirected materials, America brings builders, and brings its own styles. The immortal poets of Asia and Europe have done their work and pass'd to other spheres, A work remains, the work of surpassing all they have done.
walt whitman— Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1892), "MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN", "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd".
Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
— Otto von Bismarck, speech to Reichstag, 14 May 1872
Europe cannot confine itself to the cultivation of its own garden.
— Juan Carlos of Spain
