Europe Quotes - Page 40

• One basic formula for understanding the Community is this: 'Take five broken empires, add the sixth one later, and make one big neo-colonial empire out of it all.'

  Johan Galtung

  Broken, Community, Understanding

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• Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power? In other words, not just a trading bloc but a political entity. Do we realise that our nation states, taken individually, would find it far more difficult to assert their existence and their identity on the world stage.

  Romano Prodi

  Taken, Political, Identity

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• Thanks to the euro, our pockets will soon hold solid evidence of a European identity. We need to build on this, and make the euro more than a currency and Europe more than a territory... In the next six months, we will talk a lot about political union, and rightly so. Political union is inseparable from economic union. Stronger growth and Euorpean integration are related issues. In both areas we will take concrete steps forward.

  Laurent Fabius

  Issues, Political, Growth

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• We already have a federation. The 11, soon to be 12, member States adopting the euro have already given up part of their sovereignty, monetary sovereignty, and formed a monetary union, and that is the first step towards a federation.

  Joschka Fischer

  Unions, Firsts, Steps

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• We will have to create an avant-garde.... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde.

  Jacques Delors

  Avant Garde, Unions, Federation

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• To promote the process of European integration, we must improve an institutional mechanism already existing in the European Union, reinforced co-operation, by making it more flexible and effective. This approach allows a few states to move faster and further... We are all aware that this mechanism is vital.

  Lionel Jospin

  Moving, Unions, States

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• If you don't want to call it a European army, don't call it a European army. You can call it 'Margaret', you can call it 'Mary-Anne', you can find any name, but it is a joint effort for peace-keeping missions - the first time you have a joint, not bilateral, effort at European level.

  Romano Prodi

  Army, Names, Effort

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• We must now face the difficult task of moving towards a single economy, a single political entity .. For the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire we have the opportunity to unite Europe.

  Romano Prodi

  Moving, Fall, Opportunity

  "Greek debt crisis prompts fears of EU disintegration" by Toby Helm, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2011.

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• A European currency will lead to member-nations transferring their sovereignty over financial and wage policies as well as in monetary affairs... It is an illusion to think that States can hold on to their autonomy over taxation policies.

  Hans Tietmeyer

  Thinking, Taxation, Financial

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• I have always found the word 'Europe' on the lips of those who wanted something from others which they dared not demand in their own names!

  Otto von Bismarck

  Names, Demand, Lips

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• The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full horrors of history's worst genocide, the Holocaust that consumed 6 million Jews and 3 million others in Europe.

  Linda Chavez

  War, Holocaust, Aftermath

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• But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the Jew in Europe, and we were not realizing - In our point of view, they have not the tools to do a genocide.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Views, Armenia, Tools

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• I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. 'Please don't take away our precious Soviet Union! - We demand the annihilation of all life on Earth!'

  Craig Reucassel

  Stupid, People, Deployment

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• You know what the funniest thing about Europe is? It's the little differences.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Country, Differences, Fiction

  Quentin Tarantino (1994). “Pulp Fiction”, Miramax Books

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• That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Country, Drama, Two

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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, Evil

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

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• Europe is a state with several provinces

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Country, States, Provinces

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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, Giving, Groups

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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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• If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity, and the glory which its three or four million people would enjoy.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, People, Would Be

  "The White Goddess (A Grammar of Poetic Myth)" by, pitchfork.com. October 28, 2013.

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• My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!

  Victor Hugo

  Country, Revenge, Liberty

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• Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones of our ancestors, and the stones of their works, are everywhere. Our liberties were won in wars and revolutions so terrible that we do not fear our governors: they fear us. Our children giggle and eat ice-cream in the palaces of past rulers. We snap our fingers at kings. We laugh at popes. When we have built up tyrants, we have brought them down. And we have nuclear ********* weapons.

  Ken MacLeod

  Country, Kings, Children

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• In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Country, America, Choices

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4224, Delphi Classics

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• Until now when we have started to talk about the uniqueness of America we have almost always ended by comparing ourselves to Europe. Toward her we have felt all the attraction and repulsions of Oedipus

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Country, Oedipus, America

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• French people are Italian people in a bad mood.

  Jean Cocteau

  Country, Italian, People

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