“The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.” YearsStatesFeelingsAgeFormStrongReligiousGloryEuropeTraditionAncientDevotionProtectedSanctityTerritorialFatherland Author:Christian Lous Lange
“Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.” Has BeensStatesFeelingsFormCenturyEuropeDeliberateNineteenth Century Author:Christian Lous Lange
“In Europe itself it is not probable that war will ever absolutely cease until science discovers some destroying force so simple in its administration, so horrible in its effects, that all art, all gallantry, will be at an end, and battles will be massacres which the feelings of mankind will be unable to endure.” ArtWarEndsFeelingsForceSimpleMankindEffectsBattleEuropeEndureCeaseHorribleAdministrationDestroyingMassacresGallantry Book:The Martyrdom of Man Source: The Martyrdom of Man
“I have a dreadful feeling in my bones that future historians may write of the May 2014 elections: "This was the wake-up call from which Europe failed to wake up."” WritingMayFeelingsEuropeWake UpElectionBonesHistorianWake Up Call Author:Timothy Garton Ash
“It was a real revolution. But with one missing feature. That is the feeling in a people that "We have done it once, and if the new lot let us down, we can do it again!" It was that proud, menacing confidence which made the French revolution special. But it's not around in 21st-century Europe. After 1989, the people handed over liberty to the experts. Will they ever want it back?” PeopleIfsWantMadeRealDoneFeelingsCan DoLibertySpecialCenturyMissingRevolutionProudEuropeFeaturesExperts21st CenturyFrench Revolution Author:Neal Ascherson
“My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set of cultural trends running in the USA and Europe between 1918 and 1950, during the post-imperial modernization period.” KnowsFeelingsRunningTodayFieldsGrewPeriodsEuropePostsUsaGutsTrendsGut FeelingsModernization Author:Charles Stross
“There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.” FeelingsFormEuropeMelancholyFeeling SadMalaiseDeepness Author:Mathieu Amalric
“I would love to meet some directors, and why not do some other movies in America? But, I'm not obsessed with this idea. I'm feeling very free in Europe.” IdeasFeelingsAmericaDirectorsEuropeObsessedWhy Not Author:Ludivine Sagnier
“Many intellectuals in America and in Europe, they are in the habit of taking sides: who are the bad guys? who are the good guys? They launch a demonstration against the bad guys, sign a petition in favor of the good guys, and going to sleep feeling well about themselves.” WellsFeelingsAmericaGuySidesSleepHabitEuropeFavorsBad GuysDemonstrationGoing To SleepGood GuyPetitions Author:Amos Oz
“I was in Athens for a football match when 9/11 went down, and it was quite spectacular - we went into this bar and tried to find out what happened, and the bartender said "it's only the American and the Arabs. They're not big football nations." So the feeling was, what's it got to do with us? Why are football games being cancelled in Europe? The intelligentsia in the West feel like they have to figure out the significance of it all, whereas people have other pressing concerns, related to basic needs.” PeopleNeedsFeelsSaidFeelingsBigsGamesNationsHappenedFiguresFootballEuropeConcernDown AndWestBarsRelatedSignificanceSpectacularFootball GameAthensBartenderBasic NeedsFootball Match Author:Irvine Welsh
“People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism - even in Europe, which, seventy years after the Holocaust, is a very scary thing. I think they are feeling that Israel is very isolated and doesn't always get what they see as fair treatment in the European media.” PeopleThinkingYearsFeelingsMediaReturnEuropeFairsIsraelScaryTreatmentHolocaustIsolatedSeventiesAnti SemitismScary ThingsSensing Author:Jonathan Sacks
“Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of Europe.” WarFeelingsNiceStreetsChangedEuropeSurpriseSentimentsAnti WarSentimentalNice DayMain StreetTimes Have Changed Author:Cat Stevens
“Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the commonest racial feeling. Africa is divided into Black and White, and the names that are substituted- Africa south of the Sahara, Africa north of the Sahara- do not manage to hide this latent racism. Here, it is affirmed that White Africa has a thousand-year-old tradition of culture; that she is Mediterranean, that she is a continuation of Europe and that she shares in Graeco-Latin civilization. Black Africa is looked on as a region that is inert, brutal, uncivilized - in a word, savage.” YearsMayWholeFeelingsCultureNamesBlackReligiousWhiteShareCivilizationThousandRacismEuropeTraditionResponsibleSouthManageTensionRegionsLatinDividedContinentsBlack And WhiteBrutalSavagesThousand YearsRevivalBeing ResponsibleLatentContinuationUncivilizedSaharaOld Traditions Author:Frantz Fanon
“Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people. An insurrection has consequently begun of science talents and courage against rank and birth, which have fallen into contempt. It has failed in its first effort, because the mobs of the cities, the instrument used for its accomplishment, debased by ignorance, poverty and vice, could not be restrained to rational action. But the world will soon recover from the panic of this first catastrophe.” PeopleMenWorldMindFirstsIdeasFeelingsActionScienceUsedChangeEffortCitiesPovertyTakenTalentExampleIgnoranceBirthEuropeAccountsInstrumentsVicesRationalFallenAccomplishmentContemptPanicCatastropheLiberatedInsurrection Book:The portable Thomas Jefferson Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson