Europe Quotes - Page 22

• You didn't just pay lip service to the goal of overcoming the division of Europe and Germany... Rather, you put yourself at the forefront of those who encouraged us on the way to unity.

  Helmut Kohl

  Goal, Unity, Overcoming

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• The European Union Treaty... within a few years will lead to the creation of what the founding fathers of modern Europe dreamed of after the war, the United States of Europe.

  Helmut Kohl

  Father, War, Years

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• Via money Europe could become political in five years

  Jean Monnet

  Years, Political, Five

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• There is no future for the people of Europe other than in union.

  Jean Monnet

  People, Unions

  Article by the Jean Monnet Association on the History of the European Union page, www.historiasiglo20.org.

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• There is no real peace in Europe, if the states are reconstituted on a basis of national sovereignty. (…) They must have larger markets. Their prosperity is impossible, unless the States of Europe form themselves in a European Federation.

  Jean Monnet

  Real, Impossible, Prosperity

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

  Jean Monnet

  Fusion, Economic, States

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• If Europe today accounts for just over 7 per cent of the world's population, produces around 25 per cent of global GDP and has to finance 50 per cent of global social spending, then it's obvious that it will have to work very hard to maintain its prosperity and way of life.

  Angela Merkel

  Gdp, Population, World

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• In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together.

  Angela Merkel

  Responsibility, Political, Important

  Interview with Bertrand Benoit and Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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• The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralization of state power will be useful for the centralization of the German working class. German predominance would also transfer the center of gravity of the workers' movement in Western Europe from France to Germany, and one has only to compare the movement in the two countries from 1866 until now to see that the German working class is superior to the French both theoretically and organizationally.

  Karl Marx

  Country, Mean, Winning

  "The Karl Marx Library: On revolution".

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• If you get operated, something can go wrong and you can just say bye-bye to tennis. That's what happened to a lot of soccer players in Europe. They get operated, some things, it's not the mistake of the doctor. It's just some surgeries, they just don't go the right way...My injury will never go away. It's already become so chronic there's no chance to fix it so I can play without pain.

  Marat Safin

  Soccer, Pain, Mistake

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• There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe - without swords, without guns, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Gun, Victory, Islam

  "Terrorists Promise More Attacks Like 9/11" by Steven Stalinsky, New York Sun, September 6, 2009.

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• Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,'

  Ezra Pound

  Running, Country, Democracy

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• Too rich to be relevant to the world's poor, [Europe] attracts immigration but cannot encourage imitation. Too passive regarding international security. Too self-satisfied, it acts as if its central political goal is to become the worlds most comfortable retirement home. Too set in its ways, it fears multicultural diversity

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Retirement, Home, Self

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2012). “Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  War, Important, World

  "The CIA's Intervention in Afghanistan". Le Nouvel Observateur Interview, www.globalresearch.ca. January, 1998.

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• However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and Asia.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Powerful, Russia, Ukraine

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2007). “The Grand Chessboard”, p.49, Basic Books

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• Europe and America must act together in the face of evil. It's high time for Americans and Europeans to restore that unity and be able to take actions collectively together.

  Wesley Clark

  America, Evil, Unity

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• Let's not forget what the origin of the problem is. There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That's a 19th century idea and we are trying to transition into the 21st century, and we are going to do it with multi-ethnic states.

  Wesley Clark

  War, Ideas, Political

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• An American credit card is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.

  Edward Bellamy

  Gold, Cards, Credit

  "Looking Backward, 2000-1887". Book by by Edward Bellamy. Chapter 13, 1888.

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• The Irish are the niggers of Europe, lads.

  Roddy Doyle

  Lad

  The Commitments (1987) See James Brown 2

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• And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini's armies in Albania, on the Greek frontier, one wasn't sure what came next. So, don't trust the telephone. Or the newspapers. Or the radio. Or tomorrow.

  Alan Furst

  Army, Greek, Germany

  Alan Furst (2010). “Spies of the Balkans: A Novel”, p.4, Random House

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• I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.

  Victor Hugo

  Party, Civilization, Issues

  "Océan. Tas de pierres". Book by Victor Hugo, 1942.

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• At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see that in the end you will surely fail.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Thinking, People, Civil War

  Said to David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary on December 24, 1860. "The Civil War: A Book of Quotations" by Robert Blaisdell, 2004.

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• Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Jewish Life, Void, Berlin

  "Rebuilding the rubble" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2002.

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• It [the Euro] is a decisive step towards ever closer political and institutional union in Europe. Above all, it is political.

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

  Political, Unions, Steps

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• In Germany air became generally accepted Berlin in this area. It operated with 45 airplanes within the Low Cost range from Germany, and is one the most successful carriers in Europe.

  Niki Lauda

  Airplane, Successful, Cost

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

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