Best European Qoutes
863 European quotes by 641 unique authors
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With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of gems. Beneath the…
— Charles Tilly
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Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be hard…
— Stanley Schmidt
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Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point.
— Emma Bonino
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I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
— Ted Demme
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It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his…
— C L R James
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
— Harri Holkeri
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We're not in the middle east to bring sweetness and light to the whole world. That's nonsense. We're in the middle east because we and…
— Midge Decter
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Zionism itself has paradoxically come to adopt some antisemitic logic in its hatred of Jews who do not fully identify with the politics of the…
— Slavoj Žižek
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One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate,…
— George Saintsbury
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To be a European is to try to negotiate morally, intellectually and existentially the opposing statements and praxis of the city of Socrates and the…
— George Steiner
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I strongly support European sanctions against Mugabe and his ruling clique. We must do all in our power to help the people of Zimbabwe achieve…
— Peter Hain
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You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection…
— Bill Bryson
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To me the soul of an Indian seemed as precious as the soul of an Englishman, and the Gospel as much for the Chinese as…
— James Gilmour
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Europe is often held up as a cautionary tale, a demonstration that if you try to make the economy less brutal, to take better care…
— Paul Krugman
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Not only do we mock the Eurovision Song Contest itself, but we lampoon other European countries for taking it so seriously, and they all retaliate…
— Unknown Author
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We are with Europe but not of it. We are linked, not combined. We are interested and associated, not absorbed. And should European statesmen address…
— Winston Churchill
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It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European accomplishment so far…
— Charles A. Murray
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We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level with a European…
— Margaret Thatcher
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I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.
— Joschka Fischer
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Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.
— Tahir Shah
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By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility. In fact,…
— Fatema Mernissi
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The participation in European elections was always not very exciting. People are very interested in European issues, but they don't see the person who is…
— Joschka Fischer
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The EU is on the brink of becoming a European Federation by the year 2010... I feel sure that Britain will fall in line.
— Joschka Fischer
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Transforming the European Union into a single State with one army, one constitution and one foreign policy is the critical challenge of the age
— Joschka Fischer
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I've said before that the Ryder Cup is not the European Tour versus the American Tour. It's Europe's best golfers against the US.
— Lee Westwood
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