The conflict with Islam has, after all, existed throughout…

The Wahhabi movement is a form of radical Islam that people here say did not exist before in Bosnia, where Islam had co-existed with…

— Jasmila Zbanic

“We have adopted European costume, European ways of living, even the European vices of drinking and gambling, but none of their virtues. This must…

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

Of course, in the reality of history, the Machiavellian view which glorifies the principle of violence has been able to dominate.Not the compromising conciliatory…

— Stefan Zweig

The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English, the French…

— Orlando Figes

“Hettites appeal to us not alone because of the influence they once exercised on the fortunes of the Chosen People, not alone because a…

— A. H. SAYCE

Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't happen? That's…

— Jerry A. Coyne

More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this…

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

When you think about fascism and right-wing governments, oftentimes people think about European history, but it's been flaring up on and off all throughout…

— Torrey Peters

“History can familiarize, and it can warn. In the late nineteenth century, just as in the late twentieth century, the expansion of global trade…

— Timothy Snyder

What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration;…

— Margaret Thatcher

I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other…

— Becki Newton

“There are dozens of documented cases of Roma or Irish Travelers being falsely accused of stealing children over the twentieth century, and back through…

— Adam Rutherford

“Pope Alexander VI issued a Papal bull authorizing the Treaty of Tordesillas on June 7, 1494. The treaty gave everything located beyond 370 leagues…

— Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba

I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to World War I, which really destroyed all the…

— Lisel Mueller

I would love to go back to any time in European history, especially in Irish history, to the second or third century, prior to…

— Gabriel Byrne