Europe Quotes - 7
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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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In the nightmare of the dark All the dogs of Europe bark, And the living nations wait, Each sequestered in its hate.
wystan hugh auden— 1940 'In Memory of W.B.Yeats', pt.3.
Snow has begun to fall on the guilty secrets of Europe.
Douglas Eaglesham Dunn— 1981 'The Deserter'.
A fleet of British ships of war are the best negotiators in Europe.
— 1801Letter to Lady Hamilton, Mar, before the Battle of Copenhagen.
This barbarous feeling of nationality?has become the curse of Europe.
Le opold Se dar Senghor— 1850 Diary, 20 May.
Liberty is so great a magician, endowed with so marvelous a power of productivity, that under the inspiration of this spirit alone, North America was able within less than a century to equal, and even surpass, the civilization of Europe.
mikhail bakunin— "Reasoned Proposal to the Central Committee of the League for Peace and Freedom" also known as "Federalism, Socialism, Anti-Theologism" (September 1867)
This extremely interesting girl, after giving me a single glance from her beautiful eyes, stubbornly refused to look at me again. My vanity at once made me think that it was only so that I would be at full liberty to study her impeccable beauty. It was on this girl that I instantly set my sights, as if all Europe were only a seraglio provided for my pleasures.
giacomo casanova— History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, v. 7, chapter 2, p. 19
We know that England is crying for a leader, and that leader has emerged in the person of the greatest Englishman I have ever known, Sir Oswald Mosley ... When the history of Europe comes to be written I can assure you that his name will not be second to either Mussolini or Hitler.
william joyce— Frederic Mullally, Fascism inside England (Claud Morris Books, 1946), p. 15
— Speech at Brighton, March 1934
The 20th century peatlands ditching in Finland was the worst human environmental destruction action in Europe.
pentti linkola— Can Life Prevail? Pentti Linkola Voisiko elämä voittaa - ja millä ehdoilla tammi 2004 page 23 <smal?>(Suomen soitten ojitusta on sanottu Euroopan suurimmaksi luonnon tuhotoimeksi 1900-luvulla.)
The liberal tradition has its roots in the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth-century Europe when intellectuals and political leaders had a powerful sense that reason could be employed to make the world a better place.
john j. mearsheimer— Chapter 1, Introduction, p. 15
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— Re: PART TWO: winning industrial-use of lisp: Re: Norvig's latest paper on Lisp (Usenet article)
The Fuehrer declared that the Jews have played their final act in Europe, and therefore they have played their final act.
arthur seyss-inquart— Speech in Amsterdam, March 12, 1941. Quoted in "The Scourge of the Swastika: A Short History of Nazi War Crimes" - Page 248 - World War, 1939-1945 - 1954
The First World War had begun – imposed on the statesmen of Europe by railway timetables. It was an unexpected climax to the railway age.
a. j. p. taylor— The First World War ([1963] 1970) p. 20
With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe ; they are themselves Europe.
Peter Drucker— p. 50 (The End of Economic Man (1939))
The diversity of institutions has made possible the combination of government ownership and private enterprise which has been a further characteristic of Canadian development. Canada has remained fundamentally a product of Europe.
harold innis— Conclusion, p.401.
In light of 50 years of bondage of Eastern Europe, [invading the Soviet Union in 1948 to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons] was probably a reasonable thing to do.
condoleezza rice— TIME Magazine, October 2002
Goss and Bennett …trained him to make Europe yawn; and he took advantage of their training to make London and New York laugh and whistle.
arthur sullivan— George Bernard Shaw, in The Scots Observer, September 6, 1890; cited from Dan H. Laurence (ed.) Shaw's Music (London: The Bodley Head, 1989) vol. 2, p. 174.
The United States is the world 's best hope , but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations , if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe , you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence .
— Henry Cabot Lodge, in David Welky America Between the Wars, 1919-1941: A Documentary Reader, John Wiley & Sons, 24 January 2012, p.199
Our use of the phrase 'The Dark Ages' to cover the period from 600 to 1000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe. [...] From India to Spain, the brilliant civilisation of Islam flourished. What was lost to Christendom at this time was not lost to civilisation, but quite the contrary. [...] To us it seems that West-European civilisation is civilisation, but this is a narrow view.
bertrand russell— Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy , Routledge, 2004, p.372
The clear and present danger is, instead, that Europe will turn Japanese: that it will slip inexorably into deflation, that by the time the central bankers finally decide to loosen up it will be too late.
— Paul Krugman, "The euro: beware of what you wish for", Fortune (1998)
In the work of Havel and Konrád there is an interesting semantic division of labour. Both authors use the terms "Eastern Europe" or "East European" when the context is neutral or negative; when they write "Central" or "East Central," the statement is invariably positive, affirmative, or downright sentimental.
— Ash, Timothy Garton. Does Central Europe Exist?. International Visegrad Fund. Retrieved on 2009-11-01.
The Channel is that silver strip of sea which severs merry England from the tardy realms of Europe.
— In the Church and State Review (April 1, 1863).
So let his name through Europe ring! A man of mean estate, Who died as firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was great.
— Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, The Private of the Buffs.
If we have to start over again with another Adam and Eve, then I want them to be Americans and not Russians, and I want them on this continent and not in Europe.
— Richard B. Russell, remarks in the Senate during debate on the antiballistic missile (October 2, 1968), Congressional Record, vol. 114, p. 29175.
I am worn down, and worn out, with crusading and defending Europe, and protecting mankind; I must think a little of myself.
— Sydney Smith
As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris.
— Friedrich Nietzsche (Definitions of Europe by geography or culture)
"Europe is and will be a Union of States."
— Jose Louis Zapatero (Prime Minister of Spain), Speech to Spanish Cortes, 15 June 2004
The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought. ... Europe and large parts of Asia and Africa became one vast battlefield on which after years of struggle not armies but nations broke and ran. When all was over, Torture and Cannibalism were the only two expedients that the civilized, scientific, Christian States had been able to deny themselves: and they were of doubtful utility.
— Winston Churchill, From The World Crisis, 1911-1918 : Chapter I (The Vials of Wrath), Churchill, Butterworth (1923)
I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, - astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It is very important to note that some 2,500 years ago at the least Pythagoras went from Samos to the Ganges to learn geometry...But he would certainly not have undertaken such a strange journey had the reputation of the Brahmins' science not been long established in Europe.
— Francois Voltaire, Lettres sur l'origine des sciences et sur celle des peuples de l'Asie (first published Paris, 1777), letter of 15 December 1775.
In Europe, anti-Americanism is much more a hobgoblin of the political, cultural, and religious elites.
— Jean-François Revel, "Europe's Anti-American Obsession" (2003), The View From Abroad, The American Enterprise.
