“One of the big mistakes they made in Europe is that the circumstances in which you most frequently read or hear the word "race" or "racism" in Europe applies to Muslims. Which is not a race. It is a religion. You can convert to this. You cannot convert your race. I could become a Muslim. I could not become a Chinese person or a black person. So they constantly use that in Europe.” PersonsMadeUseBigsBlackRaceMistakeCircumstancesRacismEuropeChineseBig MistakeBlack Person Author:Fran Lebowitz
“It is religion which has made modern Europe what she is by its stability amid the ruin of nations, by adapting itself to circumstances, to times, and places, without ever abating an iota of its unshaken principles.” MadeNationsPrinciplesModernCircumstancesEuropeRuinsStabilityAdapting Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
“Switzerland has no competition. It sits in the middle of Europe, it has the highest technological development, it's legally safe and the political circumstances are never going to change.” PoliticalMiddleDevelopmentCircumstancesSafeHighestEuropeCompetitionTechnologicalSwitzerlandTechnological Development Author:Jean Ziegler
“I am chilled by the realization of how similar circumstances in Europe in 2013 are to those of 100 years ago.” YearsCircumstancesEuropeYears AgoRealizationChilled Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“Nations are an historic reality in Europe. They all have different histories, and they joined the EU at very different times and under widely differing circumstances. I was mayor of Warsaw for three years and always in favor of Poland joining the EU. But I also experienced how we had to implement EU regulations that were completely inappropriate to our situation.” YearsDifferentRealityThreeNationsSituationCircumstancesEuropeFavorsThree YearsRegulationHistoricJoiningMayorsInappropriatePolandDifferent TimesWarsaw Author:Lech Kaczynski
“My wife and I took a sabbatical and we went from Europe to India, where we lived in an ashram for six months and did meditation and yoga vigorously, like from 5:00 in the morning until 10:00 in the night in very austere circumstances. I think then my practice became less superficial, more like the traditional definition of what meditation was: to truly find oneness.” ThinkingNightPracticeMorningMeditationWifeMonthsCircumstancesSixYogaEuropeIndiaDefinitionsMy WifeTraditionalOnenessSuperficialSix MonthsMeditation And YogaSabbatical Author:Karan Bajaj