Familiar Quote by Michel Foucault

I worry that we have forgotten that the de-ideologized, de-politicized, uncontentious public space of the last 50 years as Europeans have experienced it is…

— Tony Judt

Individual acts have made Europe a civilized place and are key to its development. We must not forget it.

— Haris Pasovic

For four hundred years European civilization has dominated the world - for better or for worse. It is convenient, and flattering, for Americans to…

— William Pfaff

People feel that European institutions are remote and bureaucratic, run by shady cosmopolitan elites. Britain is not absolutely exceptional because if you look at…

— Timothy Garton Ash

If anything, todays patterns are beginning to resemble the multi-layered complexities of the high middle ages, and not simply as played out in Europe.…

— John Ralston Saul

“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

In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.

— Harri Holkeri

It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society - its worldview, its basic values,…

— Peter Drucker

In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without…

— Josiah Strong

The East European small countries have a sense of betrayal, of having been forgotten by Western leaders.

— Tony Judt

Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves onevery…

— George Canning