Europe Quotes - 6
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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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More Europe Quotes
Business carried on as usual during alterations on the map of Europe.
Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill— 1914 Of the British people's view of World War I. Speech at the Guildhall, London, 9 Nov.
: Say, is it too early for a drink? : What's early about it? It's tomorrow in Europe and yesterday in China.
— MAXPOLLY1943 Over Twenty-One, act 3.
A spectre is haunting Europethe spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holyalliance to exorcise this spectre; Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police spies.
— 1848 The Communist Manifesto (with Friedrich Engels, translated by Samuel Moore,1888).
You'rethinkingof Europeas Germanyand France.Idon't. I think that's old Europe.
Donald Rumsfeld— 2003 Responding to questions about European hostility to military intervention in Iraq, 22 Jan.
We are entirely for the idea that Europe shall be free from nuclear weapons, from medium-range weapons as well as tactical weapons. That would be a real zero option.
leonid brezhnev— As quoted in Nuclear War: The Search for Solutions (1985) by Leonard V. Johnson, Helen Caldicott, Thomas L. Perry and Dianne DeMille
Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land.
lawrence durrell— Letter to Henry Miller, 1948
If you want to maintain the superiority of your state at the present time, you must quickly enter into a coalition with Germany and Italy and thus restrain Europe and create a firm foundation for imperial policy in the Far East.
kōki hirota— Quoted in "Japan at the Crossroads" - Page 64 - by Walter Smith - 1936
We swear we are not going to abandon the struggle until the Last Jew in Europe has been exterminated and is actually dead. It is not enough to isolate the Jewish enemy of mankind - the Jew has got to be exterminated!
robert ley— May 1943. Quoted in The Final Solution: Origins and Implementation - Page 224 - by David Cesarani - History - 1994
In 1995, when I was backpacking through Europe solo, I would head to the train station, look up at the big board, and decide right there and then where I would go that day.
joseph pisani— Television Interview, Aeschbacher April 4, 2008, Swiss Television SF1
There remain of Europe, first, Macedonia and the part of Thrace that are contiguous to it and extend as far as Byzantium; secondly, Greece; and thirdly, the Islands that are close by. Macedonia, of course, is a part of Greece, yet now, since I am following the nature and shape of the place geographically, I have decided to classify it apart from the rest of Greece and to join it with that part of Thrace...
strabo— VII, Frg. 9, Loeb
America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!
Israel Zangwill— The Melting Pot, act 1.
The white people who came here lived at a very much higher standard than the indigenous peoples, and with a very rich tradition which they brought with them from Europe.
pieter willem botha— As quoted in Dictionary of South African Quotations, Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books 1994, p441.
About Swami Vivekanada: I am not saying that the message of the Swami was the final word in our nationalism… But it was tremendous – something with an undying glory of its own. If you read his books, if you read his lectures, you are struck at once with his love of humanity, his patriotism, not abstract patriotism which came to us from Europe but of different nature altogether a more living thing, something which we feel within ourselves when we read his writings.
chittaranjan das— Speech delivered at Barisal on 14th October 1917. Source: Collected Works of Deshbandhu.
It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along its shores.
margaret fuller— "American Literature" in Papers on Literature and Art (1846), p. 122.
The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.
Lewis Mumford— "The Origins of the American Mind" in The Golden Day (1926).
It is one of history's most mocking ironies that the German customs union, which set out to dominate Europe and conquer Britain in the form of Bismarckian or Hitlerian military force, has at last vanquished the victor by drawing Britain into a Zollverein which comprises Western Europe and aspires to comprise the Mediterranean as well. If the ghosts of the Hohenzollerns come back to haunt this planet, they must find a lot to laugh at.
enoch powell— Speech in Grimsby (20 May 1977), from Enoch Powell on 1992 (Anaya, 1989), p. 93.
What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?
walter scott— Woodstock, Chap. xxxvii.
It was, however, from Spain, and not from Arabia, that a knowledge of eastern mathematics first came into western Europe. The Moors had established their rules in Spain in 747, and by the tenth or eleven century had attained a high degree of civilisation.
— W. W. Rouse Ball, A Short Account of the History of Mathematics (1888), Courier Dover, 1960, p.164
Again, there is the problem of distinguishing between the hypothesis that Berbers originate from and admixture of North Africans with Europeans (and also with people from the Middle East), and a second one that Berbers are direct descendants of the North Africans, a fraction of whom settled Europe. The two hypotheses are not mutually exclusive and might both be true
— Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Genes, Peoples and Languages, Penguin, 2001, p.88
Spain under the Omayyad caliphs (...) developed the most brilliant civilization in the Europe of the period, with achievements in science, the arts, and literature far beyond anything the nascent northern or Italian states could offer, or even the decadent Byzantines.
— Fletcher Pratt, The Battles that Changed History (1956), Courier Dover Publications, 2000, p.93
Norway did not even have a revolution at the time the rest of Europe was busy figuring out human rights and stuff, because we were busy fighting over how to spell it.
— Erik Naggum, comp.lang.lisp (Attributed)
There remain of Europe , first, Macedonia and the part of Thrace that are contiguous to it and extend as far as Byzantium ; secondly, Greece; and thirdly, the Islands that are close by. Macedonia, of course, is a part of Greece, yet now, since I am following the nature and shape of the place geographically, I have decided to classify it apart from the rest of Greece and to join it with that part of Thrace...
— Strabo, "Geography", VII, Frg. 9, Loeb
Who would not praise Patricio's high desert, His hand unstain'd, his uncorrupted heart, His comprehensive head? all interests weigh'd, All Europe sav'd, yet Britain not betray'd.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (1731-35), Epistle I, line 82.
We are entirely for the idea that Europe shall be free from nuclear weapons, from medium-range weapons as well as tactical weapons. That would be a real zero option.
— As quoted in Nuclear War: The Search for Solutions (1985) by Leonard V. Johnson, Helen Caldicott, Thomas L. Perry and Dianne DeMille
There is no freedom in Europe that's certain it is besides a worn out portion of the globe.
— Lord Byron
Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.
— Leonid Brezhnev
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
— Aldous Huxley (Definitions of Europe by geography or culture)
In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.
— D. H. Lawrence
There is no French race, no French type; there is a common cultural, historical heritage that is uniquely French but France is hybrid, whose seeds come from Asia, Africa, Europe.
— Baldoon Dhingra, Search for roots: lectures and talks, Publication Bureau, Panjab University, 1977, p.40
We have now, it Seems, a National Bible Society, to propagate the King James's Bible through all Nations. Would it not be better to apply the pious SubScriptions, to purify Christendom from the Corruptions of Christianity; than to propagate those corruptions in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America!
— John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson (November 4, 1816). Published in The Quotable John Adams (Globe Pequot, 2008), p. 185ff.
