Europe Quotes · Page 55

In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.

— D. H. Lawrence

I was called the greatest director in Europe, but I was just a hard worker.

— Fritz Lang

Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.

— H. A. L. Fisher

We will try to raise awareness in Europe for the special situation and the special security needs of Israel.

— Sebastian Kurz

There is no question of any erosion of essential national sovereignty.

— Edward Heath

When I am in New York, I want to be in Europe, and when I am in Europe, I want to be…

— Woody Allen

Primary responsibility for Brexit lies with British conservatives, who took an entire continent hostage.

— Martin Schulz

Labour needs to lead - lead on Brexit, lead in Europe, lead for the people.

— Clive Lewis

But the European Union does not have a concept of national identity. It was set up to abolish that idea, not to…

— Roger Scruton

I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We're just another remote country that…

— Clive Anderson

And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive.…

— Karl Rove

“Europeans would like to escape from their history, a "great" history written in letters of blood. But others, by the hundreds of…

— Raymond Aron

Whatever threats Remain may continue to fire at us, they cannot answer the simple and most basic proposition: that only by leaving…

— Nigel Farage

Anti-union propaganda has been considerably more successful here [ in the U.S.] than in Europe, even among working people who would benefit…

— Noam Chomsky

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

— Christopher Lasch

I was struck during the Brexit debate by how little discussion there was about the origins of the concept of a united…

— Sheila Hancock

But please remember, that in 1991 in the Sejm [lower chamber of polish parliament] I didn't demand the abolishment of Special Economic…

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke

For over five years this man [Winston Churchill] has been chasing around Europe like a madman in search of something he could…

— Adolf Hitler

“[They] may have for instance taken the view of Edmund Burke, who in the 18th century made the central conservative insight; that…

— Douglas Murray

Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of…

— Friedrich Engels

To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the…

— Carles Puigdemont

What I consistently say to young people - I say it in the United States, but I'll say it here in Germany…

— Barack Obama

I'll negotiate with toughness, and with great attention to detail to get the best possible deal for Britain. It's only when we…

— Michael Gove

I must be absolutely clear about this. Britain cannot accept the present situation on the budget. It is demonstrably unjust. It is…

— Margaret Thatcher

We believe that what they call "Grexit" [a Greek exit from the eurozone] is not an option for us.

— Antonis Samaras

Whatever the details of union may be, there's no doubt we need more policy coordination in Europe.

— Gerhard Schroder

It's good to see that America has a hub for electronic music in Vegas, like Europe has with Ibiza.

— Paul Oakenfold

Brexit is so important, it would have been neglect of duty to simply sit it out.

— Keir Starmer

“Cultures that do not wish to exist cannot be dissuaded from destroying themselves.”

— David P. Goldman

In Turkey the religious minorities have more rights than they do in Europe.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

In Europe, they're more demanding, the ones that rent the build ings.

— Helmut Jahn

I was a Labour luvvie, with Blair. I wasn't really a party member.

— Maureen Lipman

Never, never, will I accept, on issues of integrity, comparisons with the Liberal party.

— Pauline Marois

Of all the peoples of Europe, Spaniards disgust me the least.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In Estonia, the Russian minority can move freely, travel freely, work anywhere in Europe.

— Kersti Kaljulaid

The longing for Europe has been all but extinguished in the young.

— Allan Bloom

We will do whatever we could do to keep Greece inside the euro and inside Europe.

— Alexis Tsipras

Liberals always feel your pain. Unless of course, they caused it.

— Dennis Miller

Jeremy Corbyn is a Brexiteer. This guy has always wanted us to leave the E.U.

— Chuka Umunna

EU didn't advance our [Eastern Europe] democracy by a single millimeter.

— Vaclav Klaus