Quotes tagged ‘Europe’

“The histories of the United States and Europe are ashamed of slavery, embarrassed by the colonial period and chagrined at the oppression of people of color and non-Christians. Your researchers and historians are deeply ashamed of the bloodsheds wrought in the name of religion between the Catholics a…”

— Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, english.khamenei.ir

“Many people say that we don’t have any solutions to the climate crisis. And they are right. Because how could we? How do you 'solve' the greatest crisis that humanity has ever faced? How do you 'solve' a war? How do you 'solve' going to the moon for the first time? How do you 'solve' inventing new i…”

— Greta Thunberg, theguardian.com

“The climate crisis is both the easiest and the hardest issue we have ever faced. The easiest because we know what we must do. We must stop the emissions of greenhouse gases. The hardest because our current economics are still totally dependent on burning fossil fuels, and thereby destroying ecosyste…”

— Greta Thunberg, theguardian.com

“During the last six months I have travelled around Europe for hundreds of hours in trains, electric cars and buses, repeating these life-changing words over and over again. But no one seems to be talking about it, and nothing has changed. In fact, the emissions are still rising.”

— Greta Thunberg, theguardian.com

“What people outside this country, particularly in Europe, think about this country, what they like about it is generally something that comes out of black culture. It’s jazz. It’s even language. Think about what this country would be like without us. I wouldn’t even visit!”

— Toni Morrison, granta.com

“Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: You Americans never understand the importance of tradition. Martha Levinson: Yes we do. We just don't give it power over us... history and tradition took Europe into a world war. Maybe you should think about letting go of its hand.”

— Julian Fellowes, Andy Goddard, Violet Crawley, Maggie Smith, imdb.com

“Europe is far more racist than America. Yet the left is in love with European values. They love Europe's emphasis on promiscuous sex. They love Europe's redistributive economic policies. Most of all, they love Europe's willingness to abandon all principle in supposed gratification of multiculturalis…”

— Ben Shapiro, townhall.com

“Americans are not racists, and they are not socialists. That is why America is on the rise, even as Europe falls.”

— Ben Shapiro, townhall.com

“Europe used to be my favorite continent. Now it's not even in my Top-5.”

— Ian Martin, Selina Meyer, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, imdb.com

“Hey, Europe: be gayer.”

— Adam Reed, Cyril Figgis (voice), Chris Parnell, imdb.com

“When I went backpacking through Europe after I quit school, I went to this island off the coast of Sicily—it’s this volcanic island—and on the boat over, there was this pine box. Somebody from the island was being returned to be buried there. And there were all these old Sicilians dressed up all in…”

— Alan Ball, Nate Fisher, Peter Krause, imdb.com

“The Communist threat is a global one. Its successful advance in one sector threatens the destruction of every other sector. You cannot appease or otherwise surrender to communism in Asia without simultaneously undermining our efforts to halt its advance in Europe.”

— Douglas Macarthur, americanrhetoric.com

“That is how I see mankind in its suffering; that is how I see the suffering people of Europe, bleeding to death on deserted battlefields after conflicts which to a great extent were not their own.”

— Fridtjof Nansen, nobelprize.org

“Christianity…is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals, and then spread to our Europe, where some fanatics espoused it, where some intriguers pretended to be convinced by it and where some imbeciles…”

— Frederick the Great, amazon.com

“Compare Holland with Russia; you see only marshy and sterile islands in the former, which rise from the center of the ocean: a small republic which is only 48 miles length by 40 wide. But this small body is the very nerve-center of the region: immense people live in it, and these industrious people…”

— Frederick the Great, amazon.com

“I remember being in China and realizing how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We're just another remote country that hardly impinges on some places at all.”

— Clive Anderson, independent.co.uk

“Now Europe balanc’d, neither side prevails: For nothing’s left in either of the scales.”

— Alexander Pope, oll.libertyfund.org

“When you have children—young children and older children going to university in America—you are of course concerned and worried. What are their lives going to be like? That’s my main concern. Obviously there are a lot of other things in terms of how businesses are going to survive, how people from E…”

— David Beckham, standard.co.uk

“At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? — Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! — All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own ex…”

— Abraham Lincoln, en.wikiquote.org

“I'm an economic nationalist. I am an 'America first' guy. And I have admired nationalist movements throughout the world, have said repeatedly strong nations make great neighbors. I've also said repeatedly that the ethno-nationalist movement, prominent in Europe, will change over time. I've never bee…”

— Steve Bannon, wsj.com