Diversity Quote by Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi

Europe's experiment with multiculturalism, or the side-by-side existence of different cultures, has failed throughout the continent. Integration requires a minimum basis of shared values,…

— Walter Kasper

My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states. Europe will be stronger precisely because it has France as…

— Margaret Thatcher

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

— Haris Pasovic

We are in Europe, and we want a Europe that does few things and does them well, one that recognizes people's identities, languages, etc.

— Matteo Salvini

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

The goal of European unification can only be achieved if everyone participates, perhaps with exceptions in some areas. Not all countries are part of…

— Wolfgang Schauble

Europe has never been a monolithic space, it contains a lot of people, a lot of languages and infinite supplies of history. I didn't…

— Aleksandar Hemon

I said, yet again, for Germany, Europe is not only indispensable, it is part and parcel of our identity. We've always said German unity,…

— Angela Merkel

The diversity of our cultures is Europe's greatest asset. We have to preserve this asset. And any political intervention that reduces this diversity is…

— Jaroslaw Kaczynski

The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State.

— Jean Monnet

Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.

— Ulrich Beck

In the long run, Europe will certainly move toward unification. But it will be a process of push and pull, and there will be…

— Norman Davies