You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Wanna go study about incestuous royal families and bloody murders?' she asked him. 'Or do you wanna study European history instead?” — Robin Benway Copy Share Image
“There is of course a deep spiritual need which the pilgrimage seems to satisfy, particularly for those hardy enough to tackle the… — Edwin Mullins Copy Share Image
It's important to remember and celebrate our roots, and mine are very deeply rooted in a more romantic time of European history. — Jack Savoretti Copy Share Image
In the darkest days of European history, America stood close by us and today we stand close by America. Nothing will ever… — Romano Prodi Copy Share Image
The conflict with Islam has, after all, existed throughout European history. — Walter Kasper Copy Share Image
I was reading a lot of European history, and I thought Attila the Hun had gotten a bad rap. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro… — George Will Copy Share Image
“The European history of the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to World War I, which really destroyed… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It… — Anders Fogh Rasmussen Copy Share Image
Scandinavia is boring. People living there apparently have little to do. And as European history teaches, when there is nothing much to… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied… — Becki Newton Copy Share Image
“Pope Alexander VI issued a Papal bull authorizing the Treaty of Tordesillas on June 7, 1494. The treaty gave everything located beyond… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“Rosewater was twice as smart as Billy, but he and Billy were dealing with similar crises in similar ways. They had both… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Then, in an unusual moment, she grew emotional, which left little doubt about the level of profound respect and admiration Merkel had… — Claudia Clark Copy Share Image
Of course, in the reality of history, the Machiavellian view which glorifies the principle of violence has been able to dominate.Not the… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“There are dozens of documented cases of Roma or Irish Travelers being falsely accused of stealing children over the twentieth century, and… — Adam Rutherford Copy Share Image
I see myself as, first and above all, a teacher of history; next, a writer of European history; next, a commentator on… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
When you think about fascism and right-wing governments, oftentimes people think about European history, but it's been flaring up on and off… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English,… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
“Every person comes with a place. It can be a house, a park, a building. When you meet someone, you are unknowingly… — Chloe Rattray Copy Share Image
“Hettites appeal to us not alone because of the influence they once exercised on the fortunes of the Chosen People, not alone… — A. H. SAYCE Copy Share Image
“We have adopted European costume, European ways of living, even the European vices of drinking and gambling, but none of their virtues.… — T. Lothrop Stoddard Copy Share Image
“History can familiarize, and it can warn. In the late nineteenth century, just as in the late twentieth century, the expansion of… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“In the sixteenth century the unity of western European Christendom had been shattered by the rise of Protestantism in its various strands… — Jerry Z. Muller Copy Share Image
“The temporary alliance between the elite and the mob rested largely on this genuine delight with which the former watched the latter… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Cribbage!” I declared, pulling out the board, a deck of cards, and pen and paper, “Ben and I are going to teach… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
“Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, honestly believed that he could reason with Adolf Hitler in good faith. Now,… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
John Paul II, above all, managed to contain the huge mass of frustration, of hate that had accumulated in that region, in… — Rocco Buttiglione Copy Share Image
The bloody years of war and all the atrocities in European history have taught the Europeans that secular politics free of religious… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I would love to go back to any time in European history, especially in Irish history, to the second or third century,… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Whoever thinks war allows for lasting victories should take a look at European history books and learn their lesson. — Frank-Walter Steinmeier Copy Share Image
Look at the chaos of European history. Europeans cannot believe in certainty. But Americans believe in certainty. Americans think this can go… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
“In her usual manner, Merkel spoke in German. It is worth pointing out, however, that before the translator had an opportunity to… — Claudia Clark Copy Share Image
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