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Quotes About Europe

I enjoy seeing other Indian musicians - old and young - coming to Europe and America and having some success. I'm happy to have contributed to that.
~ Ravi Shankar
You can be a Christian. You can be Jew. You can be a Muslim. You can be atheist. This is your own choice. But the law, the constitution, the law of the people is above God's law. So when somebody arrives in Europe, people need to accept those rules.
~ Charles Michel
In the 19th century, when Muslims were looking at Europe as an example, they were independent; they were more self-confident. In the early 20th century, with the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the whole Middle East was colonized. And when you have colonization, what do you have? You have anti-colonization.
~ Mustafa Akyol
Whatever the reason, American Muslims appear far less inclined to support the global jihad than their European counterparts.
~ Timothy Noah
Because of ignorance, I wasn't a big fan of Marvel. I hadn't read the magazines. They were not as big in Europe as they are in the United States. They're more a part of modern American mythology. I know more about the original Thor than the Marvel Thor.
~ Stellan Skarsgard
We really believe our national interests are identical with European interests.
~ Gerhard Schroder
I can look forward to that. Getting back over to Europe and playing at a little bit higher level, then hopefully becoming a leader for the national team.
~ Zack Steffen
I want to play in Europe, as the national team is important for me.
~ Jan Vertonghen
It doesn't matter to me, because in Europe I used to play for my national team... I was one of the best players and I start from the bench. For a European player, it means nothing. If I'm going to have the minutes, it doesn't matter to me if I'm going to start.
~ Bojan Bogdanovic
It's an honour to grab the attention of great coaches in Europe, from Manchester and from our own national team.
~ Fred
I love the 6 Nations rugby. I feel very Scottish then. I feel very Scottish now, sitting in the middle of Chelsea. But that's part of our heritage - being part of Britain, part of Europe. I love being European.
~ Rory Bremner
For years, we have heard warnings that Europe needs to contribute more to NATO's capability.
~ Lord Robertson
The United States, obviously, has a great interest in helping to maintain peace and security in Europe, and we have a formal alliance, NATO, to do so.
~ Hillary Clinton
We created NATO. It was a United States invention for the collective security of Europe. It has been a Russian desire since 1947 to break up NATO.
~ Malcolm Nance
Our future defence relationship with Europe should be complimentary - and not in competition to - NATO. It must be effective, too.
~ Penny Mordaunt
Sir Steven Runciman, whose history of the Crusades is an imperishable work, because it demonstrates that medieval Christian fundamentalism not only constituted a menace to Islamic civilization but also directly resulted in the sack of Byzantium, the retardation of Europe, and the massacre of the Jews.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Some sense of the death toll can be gleaned from the fact that SS spokesmen at the Wannsee conference contended that construction labor on the Eastern Front should become one of the main vehicles for wiping out every living Jew in Europe.
~ Christopher Simpson
Within hours after Wise's appearance before the press, the State Department issued a statement distancing itself from Wise and refusing to back up his contention that Hitler had begun to exterminate the Jews of Europe.
~ Christopher Simpson
European identity, it seems, is only perceived by educated people. And that is sad, but it is a start.
~ Umberto Eco
La lingua dell'Europa è la traduzione / The language of Europe is translation / Die Sprache Europas ist die Übersetzung.
~ Umberto Eco
I francesi] sono cattivi. Uccidono per noia. E' l'unico popolo che ha tenuto occupati per vari anni i suoi cittadini a tagliarsi reciprocamente la testa, e fortuna che Napoleone ha deviato la loro rabbia su quelli di altra razza, incolonnandoli a distruggere l'Europa.
~ Umberto Eco
Who among us is living in the past? You, who would bestow the horrors of the toiling industrial age upon this country, or I, who wish that our poor Europe might recover the naturalness and faith of these children of slaves?
~ Umberto Eco
Dreadful, unspeakably wicked men the Nazi chieftains were, and Lanny was haunted by the idea that it was his duty to give up all pleasures and all other duties and try to awaken the people of Western Europe to a realization of the peril in which they stood.
~ Upton Sinclair
I assure you, Mr. Truman, you have to choose between a Socialist Europe and a Communist Europe, and I think the same thing applies to Asia. If we try to impose 'private enterprise,' we shall have to do it with military forces, and do it over and over again, putting down one attempt at revolution after another.
~ Upton Sinclair