Europe Quotes

• In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  War, Suffering, Recognise You

  "Queen: both sides suffered in the war" by Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2004.

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• When I turned twenty-five, I did a six-week trip around Europe by myself. I'd never really done a European trip before and I'd definitely never traveled alone like that. I just had such a great time meeting people. I had such a great time seeing new cultures and different ways that people think and different ways that they live and different ways that they see the world.

  Tyler Hoechlin

  Thinking, People, Twenties

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• The dream of Europe is a region of freedom and peace, of security, law, democracy, tolerance and mutual respect. If you look into the faces of the refugees you will see this dream. These are people who are fleeing from war, hate, violence and unjust systems.

  Martin Schulz

  Dream, Hate, War

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• America is a new country, and maybe patriotism helps Americans create unity, since it is a melting pot. But nationalism in Europe has a strong history, as you may know.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Country, Strong, America

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Europe is slow to react, it is lagging behind in competitiveness, there are problems with demography, population, serious problems with security, internal security and military capabilities.

  Viktor Orban

  Military, Serious, Population

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• People who are not willing to respect not only the given law, but our democratic way of life, should not live in Europe.

  Vera Jourova

  Law, People, Way

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.

  Tadao Ando

  Philosophy, Book, Thinking

  "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. April 12, 2007.

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• I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe and see good old socialism in its good part! You see public concern about art, and young people's participation and young faces in the audience.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Art, New York, Thinking

  "'I Hate Authority – I Like to Make My Own Mistakes'". Interview with Ismene Brown, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 09, 2004.

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• From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours.

  David Cameron

  War, Writing, Enlightenment

  David Cameron's Speech about his plans for a referendum on British membership of the European Union, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2013.

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• Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was culture that united all the countries of Europe. The arts, literature, music are the connecting link of Europe.

  Dario Fo

  Country, Art, Culture

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• During my travels in Iraq, Israel, Gaza, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Europe and all over the United States, I have seen and heard the voices of people who want change. They want the stabilization of the economy, education and healthcare for all, renewable energy and an environmental vision with an eye on generations to come.

  Michael Franti

  Eye, Israel, Japan

  "Time for Passion and Strategy on Climate Change" by Michael Franti, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2009.

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• Is Europe going to be breaking? I don't think so. I think the euro will stay. I think at the end of the day Europeans will find the solutions in order to hold Europe together.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Thinking, Order, The End Of The Day

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• I went to Europe three times, I read dozens and dozens of books, I studied thousands of photos. But I always supplemented that research with imagination; research might give you detail, but imagination supplies the direction in which to apply all that detail.

  Anthony Doerr

  Book, Giving, Imagination

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It [European Union] has kept the peace in Europe. Countries used to fight and now they talk. We should be attached to that.

  David Cameron

  Country, Fighting, Unions

  "EU referendum campaign recap: David Cameron faces down angry audience member at Brexit debate" by Mikey Smith, www.mirror.co.uk. June 10, 2016.

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• But it is the best thing that we have for bringing the countries of Europe around the same table and for forging compromises so that people here can live in peace, freedom and prosperity. In a world which is growing closer together all the time, we can only survive and influence the rules if we join forces. We will miss the presence of the United Kingdom at this table.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Country, People, Missing

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• From the very beginning Europe has been not only a success story but also a story of success achieved by learning.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Stories, Has Beens, Success Stories

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I didn't think about politics until I came to Europe.

  Robert Redford

  Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It's important to recognize that we in Europe will either succeed together or fail together.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Important, Together, Succeed

  Interview with Michael Sauga and Christoph Schult, www.spiegel.de. July 16, 2012.

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• Seventy-eight percent of millennials are worried about not having enough good paying job opportunity to pay off their student loans. Seventy-four percent can't pay the health care if they get sick. Seventy-nine percent don't have enough money to live when they retire. So, already, we're having a whole generation that's coming on, not only here but also in Europe, that isn't able to get good-paying jobs.

  Michael Hudson

  Jobs, Opportunity, Eight

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Europe is secure from any future irruptions of Barbarians; since, before they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous.

  Edward Gibbon

  Barbarians, Conquer, Secure

  Edward Gibbon (1826). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.511

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• If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy in pursuit of criminal designs, playing upon national prejudices, and squandering in piratical wars the people's blood and treasure? It was not the wisdom of the ruling classes, but the heroic resistance to their criminal folly by the working classes of England, that saved the west of Europe from plunging headlong into an infamous crusade for the propagation of slavery on the other side of the Atlantic.

  Karl Marx

  War, Blood, Class

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.581, Oxford University Press, USA

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• However, you do need rules. Driving on the left (or the right or, in parts of Europe, on the left and the right as the mood takes you) is a rule which works, since following it means you're more likely to reach your intended rather than your final destination.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Finals, Needs

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• Europe has never existed. One must genuinely create Europe.

  Jean Monnet

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• All walls fall. Today, tomorrow or in 100 years, they will fall. It's not a solution. The wall isn't a solution. In this moment, Europe is in difficult, it's true. We have to be intelligent, and whoever comes...that migrant flow. It's not easy to find solutions, but with dialogue between nations they should be found. Walls are never solutions. But bridges are, always, always.

  Pope Francis

  Wall, Fall, Intelligent

  "Pope Francis: ‘I’m not a star, but the servant of servants of God’". Press conference, Vatican, en.radiovaticana.va. September 28, 2015.

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• The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilization, owe little or none of their superiority to direct inheritance from the old Greeks, though they owe much to the written works of that wonderful people.

  Charles Darwin

  Civilization, People, Greek

  Charles Darwin (2004). “Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.120, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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