Quotes About Europe

No passado, os grandes homens da Europa em sessões magnas, festins e banhos de champanhe dividiram o continente negro em grandes e boas fatias, escravizaram, torturaram, massacraram e deportaram as almas destas terras. Hoje, gente oriunda das antigas potências colonizadoras diz que dá a sua mão desinteressada para ajudar os que sofrem. É preciso acreditar na mudança

Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used to call a European constitution.

Europeans need easy explanations; they will always choose a simple lie over a contradictory truth.

The Holocaust was the product of a particular time and place: Europe in the aftermath of the Industrial Revolution and the upheavals of World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution. These were the contexts in which ancient hostilities toward Jews and Judaism, deeply rooted in religious rivalry but updated with the trappings of modern science, turned into a fixation on removing Jews from civil society as a magical solution to all social problems.

For non-Jews in Europe, the top priority in the Middle East is not the survival of a Jewish state; the top priorities are political calm, access to oil, and sufficient economic development of the region so that its burgeoning and overwhelmingly young population does not swamp Europe's declining and aging one.