Western Europe Quotes
46 Western Europe quotes by 40 unique authors
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Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam…
— Karen Armstrong
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Today we are in a situation in which the free movement of people can have enormous, monumental dimensions, and I don't think that any country…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Our use of phrase 'The Dark ages' to cover the period from 699 to 1,000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe...
— Bertrand Russell
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If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.
— Walter Lippmann
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They [the Soviets] intend...to induce the Americans to adopt their own 'restructuring' and convergence of the Soviet and American systems using to this end the…
— Anatoliy Golitsyn
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The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralisation of the state power will be useful for the centralisation of the German working…
— Karl Marx
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More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of…
— Joseph Lelyveld
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The most puzzling development in politics during the last decade is the apparent determination of Western European leaders to re-create the Soviet Union in Western…
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good.
— Anatoly Chubais
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Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was…
— Aldrich Ames
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Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are in…
— Thomas Sowell
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You should not do this, Comrade. We are only in the introductory stage yet, here in Western Europe. And in that stage it is better…
— Herman Gorter
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No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe has done during…
— Christopher Dawson
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Modern language must be older than the cave paintings and cave engravings and cave sculptures and dance steps in the soft clay in the caves…
— Murray Gell-Mann
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Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute…
— Lin Biao
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For the last one hundred and fifty years, the history of the House of Rothschild has been to an amazing degree the backstage history of…
— Frederic Morton
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What does it mean with regard to tactics, this fact that the proletariat of Western Europe stands all alone: that it has no prospect of…
— Herman Gorter
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Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would also…
— Dean Acheson
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Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't…
— Norman Granz
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I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. 'Please…
— Craig Reucassel
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There is an enormous difference between Russia and Western Europe.
— Herman Gorter
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The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its only resting place.
— Richard P. Bland
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A relatively small and eternally quarrelsome country in Western Europe, fountainhead of rationalist political manias, militarily impotent, historically inglorious during the past century, democratically bankrupt,…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to…
— Lloyd Cutler
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Most of the well-developed world - Australia, Western Europe - they develop their resources base, they inventory it, they develop it, and they view it…
— John S. Watson
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