Europeans Quotes

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And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came… — Dave Barry
We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization. — Sherman Alexie
Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th… — John Henrik Clarke
When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations… — John Henrik Clarke
Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one… — Brent Scowcroft
It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only colonized… — John Henrik Clarke
The Europeans and the Americans are not throwing $10 billion down this gigantic tube for nothing. We're exploring the very forefront of physics and cosmology… — Michio Kaku
Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved… — Thomas Sowell
Will not perhaps the temporal power of Islam return and with it the menace of an armed Mohammedan world, which will shake off the domination… — Hilaire Belloc
Those Europeans, they know how to negotiate. — Donyell Marshall
I believe that the Europeans, first and foremost, the Germans, will also understand me. Let me remind you that in the course of political consultations… — Vladimir Putin
[The is] a mistaken belief that [the word Indian] refers somehow to the country, India. When Columbus washed up on the beach in the Caribbean,… — Russell Means
The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of exposing children, which,… — Thomas Malthus
Representatives of the American intelligence agencies - and I hope they won't be angry - but they could have been more professional, and the diplomats… — Vladimir Putin
A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old, the Mayans were… — Carl Sagan
Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic,… — Joan Didion
Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of… — Barbara Kingsolver
Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers. — Isabelle Huppert
Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American, someone… — Christopher Hitchens
I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the… — Kathleen Turner

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