Quotes About Europe

Plenty of people in England thought Napoleon was doing precisely that.

A European war! Millions of lives! Often I had been astonished by my friend's amazing powers, but never had I seen him infer so much on the basis of so little. And, great heavens, what if it should prove true? I do not know how Freud passed that night, but my dreams surpassed my waking fears. The gay and colourful city of Johann Strauss was no longer revolving to the stately strains of his waltzes, but swirling to the shriek of a terrible nightmare.

The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.

I think it has become more prevalent because the space has been left completely uncontested to the Muslim right wing, which does not respect anyone's rights whatsoever except for this one right to cover a woman's face,' she replied. 'No one has pushed back against the Muslim right wing. Integration has largely failed across Europe, even in the UK.

As in Western Europe, apparently liberal laws the authorities say are aimed against the hate crimes of extremists suffocate wider debates.

When he is stripped of the Christian tunic and the classical toga, there is nothing left of the European but a pale-skinned barbarian.

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

Marcus Aurelius had a marvellous sense of who, and where, he was: As the Emperor Antoninus, Rome is my city and my country; but as a man, I am a citizen of the world . . . Asia and Europe are mere corners of the globe, the Great Ocean a mere drop of water, Mount Athos is a grain of sand in the universe. The present instant of time is only a point compared to eternity. All things here are diminutive, subject to change and decay; yet all things proceed from . . . the one Intelligent Cause.

The immediate future may be determined by a race between the United Kingdom and the EU over which beats the other to a major crisis.

By 1939 the Gulag was the largest employer in Europe.

There is a strong and fairly substantial theory in India as elsewhere that the gypsies of Europe originated in tribes driven out by Indian population displacements of the remote past.

The standing of the local high school football team was more likely to be the subject of conversation and concern than the war in Europe.

They said a spectre was haunting Europe. 'Do you know what a spectre is?' the ideologues asked the beedi-rollers. 'We know, comrades,' Koomankavu's new proletarians replied. 'We have djinns and poothams here.' 'You are not listening, comrades.

You see how all occidental art loses by the fact that the magnificent expressions of love have been denied it. With us, eroticism is poor, stupid and frigid. It is always presented in ambiguous attitudes of sin, while here it preserves all its vital scope, all its passionate poetry and the stupendous pulse of all nature. But you are only a european lover... a poor, timid, chilly little soul.

Then I was lucky I met with my future husband, and I started new life with my husband, and I was happy again. He was a musician. I start to travel with him through Europe also and around the former Soviet Union.

Wojnicz ju? zauwa?y?, ?e ka?da dyskusja, czy sz?o o demokracj?, czy o pi?ty wymiar, czy o rol? religii socjalizm, Europ?, wreszcie sztuk? nowoczesn?, wszystko w ko?cu sprowadza?o si? do kobiet

There was not a single smoker in Europe before the sixteenth century, because until then there was no tobacco there. Very few women smoked until the twentieth century; now the habit is more popular among young women than among young men. To say that individual differences in smoking are half caused by genes is simply not true. It all depends on the environment in which the individual is living.

In the thirteenth century, however, a really great scientific man appeared, who may be said to herald the dawn of modern science in Europe. This man was Roger Bacon. He

Crookes was talking about fixing a couple of million tonnes of nitrogen a year to assure Europe's wheat supplies for the foreseeable future. Today industry fixes over a hundred million tonnes a year, comfortably more than all the Earth's nitrogen-fixing soil bacteria put together.

I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.

The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.

questa inetta Unione Europea che coi suoi quindici e c'è chi dice venti milioni di mussulmani ci sta trasformando in una provincia dell'Islam, non è l'Europa. È il suicidio dell'Europa.

Whereas in Europe new ideas were forced to compete against other doctrines and attitudes, with the results that people tended towards healthy skepticism about claims to absolute truth, and a climate of pluralism developed, In Russia there was a cultural void. The censor forbade all political expression, so that when ideas were introduced there they easily assumed the status of holy dogma, a panacea for all the world's ills, beyond questioning or indeed the need to test them in real life.

one ever seems to actually do anything but talk. Watching the bureaucracy, it is easy to understand how Hitler was able to walk over Europe while the West dithered.