European Countries Quotes

• Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Expression, Europe, Speak

  Speech to Reichstag, May 14, 1872.

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• If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

  Salman Rushdie

  Country, Europe, Turkeys

  "Salman Rushdie: Inside the Mind of Jihadists". Interview with Nathan Gardels, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• Starting from the ruins of the Second World War, we - all Europeans said, after centuries of fighting each other, we're going to build permanent arrangements in which peace between European countries is secured, freedom is secured, and growing prosperity. And that's what we have done over the last 70 years.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Country, War, Fighting

  "Tracing The 43-Year History Of The U.K. In The European Union". "All Things Considered" with Ray Suarez, www.npr.org. June 25, 2016.

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• To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Country, Mean, Together

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• On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.

  Nathan Deal

  Country, Israel, Japan

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• I was playing catch with the European audience.

  Charles Olson

  Audience

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• There is nothing wrong with us sitting down and arguing that issue, that we are a European country.

  Pat Buchanan

  Country, Issues, Scary

  "The Bigotry Of Pat Buchanan". www.mediamatters.org. July 29, 2011.

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• Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention without politics to nominate a leader who's out in front of nobody? Maybe our national mindlessness is the very thing that keeps us from turning into one of those smelly European countries full of pseudo-reds and crypto-fascists and greens who dress like forest elves.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Country, America, Leader

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• Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country, Balkan country, Caucasian country, neighbor to Africa, Black Sea country, Caspian Sea, all these.

  Ahmet Davutoglu

  Country, Sea, Turkeys

  Interview with Marc Grossman, www.cfr.org. April 14, 2010.

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• I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Thinking, Issues, Dimensions

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• I doubt that the evil spirits of the past, under which we in Europe have already suffered more than enough this century, have been banished for ever.

  Helmut Kohl

  Country, Past, Europe

  "Europe 'Needs Maastricht to Fend Off Past'". www.independent.co.uk. October 28, 1992.

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• The Federated Republic of Europe-the United States of Europe-that is what must be. National autonomy no longer suffices. Economic evolution demands the abolition of national frontiers. If Europe is to remain split into national groups, then Imperialism will recommence its work. Only a Federated Republic of Europe can give peace to the world.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Europe, Giving

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• Why should there not be a European group which could give a sense of enlarged patriotism and common citizenship to the distracted peoples of this turbulent and mighty continent? And why should it not take its rightful place with other great groupings and help to shape the onward destinies of men?

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Destiny, Men

  Address on Unified Cooperation in Europe, delivered 19 September 1946, Zurich, Switzerland

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• The fact that the Church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women, is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Church, Facts, Constitution

  "Cardinal Ratzinger on the Banishment of God From Public Life". zenit.org. April 11, 2005.

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• When you look at the dominance of Notre Dame, the love of Mary in almost every European country, psychologically, had to come from this recognition of the feminine mediating divine love. And for many people in history, it was clearly the preferred way because women raised most people, not men, so their first experience of unconditional love, of touch, of caring, of nurturing very often came from a woman - that got easily transferred to Mary.

  Richard Rohr

  Country, Caring, Unconditional Love

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

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Light, Europe

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

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• San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities

  Cecil Beaton

  Cities, San Francisco, Bay Area

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• The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English.

  Bobby Jindal

  Country, Europe, Generations

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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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• The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen--he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form the surplus of overpopulous European countries, are far behind the wild man in delicacy of feeling or natural courtesy.

  Susanna Moodie

  Country, Native American, Men

  Susanna Moodie (1852). “Roughing it in the Bush: Or, Life in Canada”, p.11, London : R. Bentley

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• The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American

  Lorna Luft

  Air, Differences, Car

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• But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.

  William Labov

  Country, America, Europe

  "Interview with William Labov: Sound Change". "Wordmaster" with Avi Arditti and Rosanne Skirble, learningenglish.voanews.com. January 11, 2005.

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• Europe is a state with several provinces

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Country, Europe, States

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• As a result of the Left's sympathetic views of pacifism and because almost no welfare state can afford a strong military, European countries rely on America to fight the world's evil, and even to defend them

  Dennis Prager

  Country, Strong, Military

  Dennis Prager (2012). “Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph”, p.43, Harper Collins

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• Growth in any individual European country has to be the result of policies for growth pursued in that country consistent with budgetary discipline.

  Mario Monti

  Country, Discipline, Growth

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