Europe Quotes - Page 2

• The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

  Jacques Chirac

  Art, History, Construction

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That in order to achieve the triumph of liberty, justice and peace in the international relations of Europe, and to render civil war impossible among the various peoples which make up the European family, only a single course lies open: to constitute the United States of Europe

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Country, War, Lying

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin, Arthur Lehning (1973). “Selected writings [of] Michael Bakunin”, Jonathan Cape

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• Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.

  Howard Schultz

  Opportunity, Creating, Goal

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• As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

  Mark Twain

  Ideas, Backwards, Borrowed

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.194, Courier Corporation

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• If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent.

  Bertrand Russell

  Compare, Continents, Ifs

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• Paper money is like dram-drinking, it relieves for a moment by deceitful sensation, but gradually diminishes the natural heat, and leaves the body worse than it found it. Were not this the case, and could money be made of paper at pleasure, every sovereign in Europe would be as rich as he pleased. But the truth is, that it is a bubble and the attempt vanity. Nature has provided the proper materials for money: gold and silver, and any attempt of ours to rival her is ridiculous.

  Thomas Paine

  Drinking, Vanity, Gold

  Thomas Paine (1824). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.410

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• Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Light, Wish

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words”

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• If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Past, Things Change, Break

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Burger's Daughter”, p.257, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Today, Germany is on the borders of Europe everywhere.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Germany, Borders, Today

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• To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Creativity, Diversity, Florence

  "Like it or not, Europe is paying the transaction costs of diversity" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2006.

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• The EU Constitution is something new in human history. Though it is not as eloquent as the French and U.S. constitutions, it is the first governing document of its kind to expand the human franchise to the level of global consciousness. The language throughout the draft constitution speaks of universalism, making it clear that its focus is not a people, or a territory, or a nation, but rather the human race and the planet we inhabit.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Country, Race, People

  Utne Reader, October 4, 2004.

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• I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

  Madeleine Albright

  Uniforms, Affair, Stage

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• The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Japan, Architecture

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Inspiration, Race, Literature

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.107, tredition

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• The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

  Carl Jung

  Christian, Spiritual, May

  Carl Gustav Jung, Murray Stein (1999). “Jung on Christianity”, p.189, Princeton University Press

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• Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.

  Mike Myers

  People, Trying, Middle

  "Mike Myers' euro vision". www.theguardian.com. June 8, 1999.

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• I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US.

  Ville Valo

  Cities, Firsts, Bigs

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• Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.

  R. W. Apple

  Medieval, Cathedrals, Magnificent

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• It is in order that France may find her place in the new Europe that you will respond to my appeal.

  Pierre Laval

  Order, May, France

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• The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more.

  Gijs de Vries

  Agency, Borders, Helping

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• Terrorism is an evil that threatens all the countries in Europe. Vigorous cooperation in the European Union and worldwide is crucial in order to meet this evil head on.

  Jan Peter Balkenende

  Country, Order, Evil

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• Africa north of the Sahara, from a zoological point of view, is now, and has been since early Tertiary times, a part of Europe. This is true both of animals and of the races of man.

  Madison Grant

  Country, Animal, Men

  Madison Grant (2012). “The Passing of the Great Race”, p.140, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• Europe is and will be a Union of States.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Country, Unions, States

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's speech to Spanish Cortes, June 15, 2004.

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• For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy.

  George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

  Military, Years, Leader

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• There is an enormous difference between Russia and Western Europe.

  Herman Gorter

  Russia, Differences, Gdp

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