Quotes About Europe

Sai qual è il nostro problema, in quanto europei? Che vogliamo continuare a essere noi stessi senza smettere di essere il Tutto. Pretendiamo di globalizzare la nostra individualità. Ma il mondo ha sempre meno bisogno di individui, di razze, di nazioni, di lingue. Quello di cui ha bisogno è che tutti sappiamo l'inglese e, se possibile, che siamo moderatamente liberali. Che a Babele si parli inglese e avanti la Torre, dice il mondo.

Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

Je meurs avec l'Europe, je suis en bonne compagnie.

It was the kind of barbarously sticky American afternoon that made me yearn for the shadows cast by scooting summer clouds in northern Europe....

In 1900, Europe accounted for a quarter of the world's population. By 2060, it may account for just 6%—and almost a third of these will be more than 65 years old." Europe does face severe demographic problems, but the size of a population is not highly correlated with power, and "predictions of Europe's downfall have a long history of failing to materialize.

Chivalry here took a final farewell. It had to yield to the heightened intensity of war, just as all fine and personal feeling has to yield when machinery gets the upper hand. The Europe of today appeared here for the first time on the field of battle.

La mécanisation de l'homme avait fait de l'Europe un désert.

Espèce de saint d'Afrique, pensé-je, tu viens donner ta sagesse à un sauvage d'Europe qui suit la lune sur le calendrier et les nuages d'après le bulletin de la radio, et qui ne sait lire aucun mot sans un alphabet. (p. 93)

And being in the EU has given Britain a stronger voice in the world. Britain leads in Europe, from trade to climate change, from good governance to debt relief for the poorest nations, and in turn Europe helps to lead the world.

Traditionally it's been difficult for Africans to play over here, mainly because the African calendar is very different to that in Europe. Most of the coaches over here can't accept that we have to go back home to play at the Nations' Cup for a month while the season is still on over here. That made people reluctant to sign Africans.

Over time, Europeans have come to rely on governments to protect them from the rougher facets of private enterprise and to look after them in old age.

We are patriotic enough to believe there is no good reason why foreign investors from Europe cannot be expected to resolve any disputes fairly through British justice, operating through British courts. And we are European enough to think that our companies can do the same by relying on European courts.

Even if the Brits decide to remain, we will have to avoid a contagion on other countries.

Without Britain, Europe would remain only a torso.

Germany remains among the few countries in Europe to acknowledge, officially and nationally, its responsibility for the crimes it led against our people.

We have a huge responsibility to make sure that Europe remains a prosperous and peaceful continent.

Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after the war.

I have many good 'souvenirs.' I remember when I was 19 and we beat Madrid 5-3 and I won my first European Cup. Also, in 1965, when I won the Golden Ball for the best player in Europe.

My official field was Tudor-Stuart England; I also considered myself reasonably competent when it came to Renaissance and Reformation Europe.

I will do everything I can to renew a new Rome-Berlin axis.

In Europe, they're more demanding, the ones that rent the build ings.

Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.

Compared to the United States, physicians in Europe have a much more conservative approach to joint replacement in general.

I represent my country, but I also represent the continent of Africa when I play in Europe. That's why it's important to try to achieve something big.