Classic Quote by Margaret Thatcher

Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure.

— Margaret Thatcher

What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration;…

— Margaret Thatcher

The EU project is to create a country called Europe.

— John Redwood

Europe was initially supposed to be primarily a political project! The EU never would have come about had it been up to experts or…

— Emmanuel Macron

Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the whole world…

— Albert Camus

“Far from being Eurocentric, my analysis "exoticizes" Europe. Europe is historically aberrant. In some ways this was a historical accident, not entirely Europe's fault.…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Europe is a much more complex historical, cultural, and geographical concept than is envisaged in the reduced approach by the European Union.

— Haris Pasovic

Europe is standing on the brink of the greatest tragedy in the history of the human race: a new world war, that may involve…

— Vidkun Quisling

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in…

— Aldous Huxley

If the euro becomes a factor promoting Europe's drifting apart, then the foundation of the European project is destroyed.

— Mario Monti

The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.

— Dominique de Villepin

What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe.

— Peter Mandelson