Europe And America Quotes

• Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.

  Noah Webster

  Country, Army, Gun

  Noah Webster (1787). “An Examination Into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia: With Answers to the Principal Objections that Have Been Raised Against the System”, p.43

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• A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophical, Europe, Haunting

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1908). “Manifesto of the Communist Party”

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• I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  Trust, Military, Believe

  "Candidate for change" by Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2005.

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• Japan, Europe, [and] America probably [are] better than last year [2015], not China.

  Jamie Dimon

  Japan, Years, Lasts

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• In addressing you I feel that I am not so much speaking to the representatives of diverse States of Europe and America as to the exponents of principles and hopes that are common to us all, and without which our life on earth would be a life without horizon or prospect.

  Henry Campbell-Bannerman

  America, Europe, Perspective

  "Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's Speech at the London Interparliamentary Conference". The Advocate of Peace, Volume 68, No. 9, archive.org. September 1906.

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• The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Generations, Lasts, Philosopher

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• The biggest difference as far as Muslims in Europe and America are concerned is that the number of Muslims in America is small compared to the number in Europe.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Differences, Numbers, Concerned

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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• When Europe and America stand together the world is a better and more prosperous place.

  Tony Blair

  Together, World, Prosperous

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

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• The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics - the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw - but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse.

  Bayard Taylor

  Eye, Dark, Differences

  Bayard Taylor (2015). “The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain”, p.64, The Floating Press

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• Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

  David Hare

  Farewell, Thinking, Interesting

  "David Hare pays tribute to Philip French". www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2013.

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• Whether we live by the seaside, or by the lakes and rivers, or on the prarie, it concerns us to attend to the nature of fishes, since they are not phenomena confined to certain localities only, but forms and phases of the life in nature universally dispersed. The countless shoals which annually coast the shores of Europe and America are not so interesting to the student of nature as the more fertile law itselffrom which it results that they may be found in water in so many places, in greater or lesser numbers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Lakes, Law

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.18, Xist Publishing

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• Europe and America should judge Georgia's leadership on the basis of their actions, not just their words and promises. Otherwise Saakashvili will transform Georgia into a dictatorship.

  Bidzina Ivanishvili

  Judging, Promise, Georgia

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Some Iranian doctors from Europe and America go to Iran and operate for free or teach medical students there. The other day, I met a gentlemen who is helping to protect wildlife in Iran. It's good that many of them don't forget about their country. It's important.

  Farah Diba

  Country, Doctors, Iran

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In Europe and America alike, voters increasingly recognize that the benefits of the green revolution aren't worth the costs, particularly when the revolutionaries don't have a clue what they're doing.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Europe, America, Cost

  "All (Green) Thumbs". www.nationalreview.com. June 1, 2012.

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• To say that the whole of the industrial experience of Europe and America just shows the rewards of exploiting the Third World is a gross simplification.

  Amartya Sen

  World, Rewards, Gross

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• Iran is a major threat to the well-being of Europe and America just as much as it is for the state of Israel.

  Ehud Olmert

  Israel, Iran, States

  "'Israel Should Not Be on the Forefront of a War Against Iran'". Interview with Romesh Ratnesar, content.time.com. April 09, 2006.

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• Confronting this regime and opposing Zionists are a national duty, as well as religious and Islamic duty, and a human duty. Even the people of Europe and America despise the Zionists. They hate them. They feel humiliated by the Zionists, who are a burden on them.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Religious, Hate, Islamic

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• You can hear the Celtic heartbeat all over Europe and America, from Bing Crosby to Jack White, from the Smiths to My Bloody Valentine, from House of Pain to Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.

  Rob Sheffield

  Valentines Day, Pain, America

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• It is for Muslim scholars to study the whole history of Islamic science completely and not only the chapters and periods which influenced Western science. It is also for Muslim scholars to present the tradition of Islamic science from the point of view of Islam itself and not from the point of view of the scientism, rationalism and positivism which have dominated the history of science in the West since the establishment of the discipline in the early part of the 20th century in Europe and America.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Islamic, Views, Europe

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• I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's not a n*gger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will says that the Lord made a White man from dust, a n*gger from mud, then He threw up what was left and it came down a Chinaman. He does hate Chinese and Japs. So do I. It is race prejudice, I guess. But I am strongly of the opinion Negroes ought to be in Africa, Yellow men in Asia and White men in Europe and America.

  Harry S. Truman

  Uncles, Hate, Men

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• I want to make all Europe and America know it - I want to make England feel her weakness if she refuses to give the justice we the Irish require - the restoration of our domestic parliament.

  Daniel O'Connell

  Giving, Justice, Weakness

  Speech given at a 'monster' meeting held at Drogheda, June, 1843.

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• Today, practically every country outside the West is undergoing an intellectual, political, and cultural churning, from China to Bolivia, Egypt to Indonesia, but we haven't really had, after the 1960s, a major oppositional culture in Western Europe and America. The Occupy movement was so startling and welcome partly because it was the first such eruption of mass protests in decades.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Country, America, Egypt

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If men make war in slavish observance of rules, they will fail. No rules will apply to conditions of war as different as those which exist in Europe and America...War is progressive, because all the instruments and elements of war are progressive.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Men, Different

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• Seve Ballesteros was a million percent the best Ryder Cupper on either side of Europe and America.

  Sam Torrance

  Sides, Percent, Millions

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• In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither; one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other.

  Mark Twain

  Discovery, Years, Glimpse

  Mark Twain (2015). “Life On The Mississippi: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.6, 谷月社

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