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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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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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, Europe

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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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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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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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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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San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities

Cecil Beaton

Cities, San Francisco, Bay Area

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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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Look, there is parliamentary democracy in most European countries, there is parliamentary democracy in Japan, there is parliamentary democracy in many countries, but in the United States, for some reason, the State is organized differently, there is quite a stringent presidential republic.

Vladimir Putin

Country, Japan, Presidential

Source: www.russianembassy.org

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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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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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Europe is a state with several provinces

Baron de Montesquieu

Country, Europe, States

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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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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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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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I have on the one hand a hatred and on the other a yearning for Vienna. I left when I was nine years old because I was Jewish. And even before 1938, the anti-Semitism in Austria was probably deeper than it was in Germany or in other European countries.

Eric Kandel

Country, Hands, Years

Source: www.spiegel.de

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Not so great in England at the moment; in an online poll we came last, we actually came bottom of European countries for quality of life, because of things like the weather, obviously, late retirement, poor holiday, poor public services, poor health service; it's basically just a kind of grey, godless wilderness, full of cold pies and broken dreams.

Bill Bailey

Funny, Dream, Country

"Bill Bailey: Dandelion Mind". Documentary, Comedy, 2010.

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Common foreign policy is completely unnecessary. The various European countries have widely differing priorities, goals and prejudices. It would be wrong to force them all to follow the same course.

Vaclav Klaus

Country, Goal, Priorities

"'The Past Is the Past'". Interview with Christian Neef and Jan Puhl, Renata Hanusova, www.spiegel.de. March 13, 2006.

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I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.

Philip Levine

Parent, Feels, Like Me

Philip Levine (2002). “So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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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 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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Russia itself is a European country, and not just because our major political and economic centres are in Europe, but because Russian culture is primarily European culture.

Vladimir Putin

Country, Russia, Europe

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