“From the moment a New Yorker is confronted with almost any large city of Europe, it is impossible for him to pretend to himself that his own city is anything other than an unscrupulous real-estate speculation” RealMomentsCitiesImpossibleEuropeEstatesSpeculationImpossibilityNew YorkersLarge Cities Book:Europe without Baedeker: sketches among the ruins of Italy, Greece and England, together with, Notes from a European diary, 1963-1964 Source: Europe without Baedeker: sketches among the ruins of Italy, Greece and England, together with, Notes from a European diary, 1963-1964
“it is impossible for any mind of common honesty not to be revolted by the contradictions in their principles and practice. They inveigh against the governments of Europe, because, as they say, they favor the powerful and oppress the weak. ... [yet] you will see them with one hand hoisting the cap of liberty, and with the other flogging their slaves. You will see them one hour lecturing their mob on the indefeasible rights of man, and the next driving from their homes the children of the soil, whom they have bound themselves to protect by the most solemn treaties.” MenMindChildrenHomeHandsGovernmentNextHoursPowerfulCommonLibertyPrinciplesPracticeRightsImpossibleHonestyProtectEuropeWeakSlaveBoundsFavorsDrivingSoilHypocrisyContradictionSolemnCapsTreatiesOne HourLecturingFlogging Author:Frances Trollope
“There is no nation on the continent of Europe that is less able to do harm to England, and there isno nation on the continent of Europe to whom we are less able to do harm, than Russia.We are so separate that it seems impossible that the two nations, by the use of reason or common sense at all, could possibly be brought into conflict with each other.” TwoReasonUseSeemsAbleNationsCommonImpossibleConflictEuropeEnglandHarmRussiaCommon SenseContinentsTwo Nations Author:John Bright
“It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the Earth are being covered with railroads.” CountryWholeEarthSecretImpossibleEuropeDenyFranceUselessGermanyCoveredPortionsOther CountriesRailroadsSecret Society Author:Benjamin Disraeli
“The basics of acting are really better in America than in Europe. Just the basic "fake laugh" is impossible to get in France.” AmericaActingLaughingImpossibleEuropeFranceFakeBasics Author:Thomas Mars
“The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is eager to enter into close relationship with the Bank for International Settlements....The conclusion is impossible to escape that the State and Treasury Departments are willing to pool the banking system of Europe and America, setting up a world financial power independent of and above the Government of the United States....The United States under present conditions will be transformed from the most active of manufacturing nations into a consuming and importing nation with a balance of trade against it.” WorldStatesGovernmentAmericaNationsUnitedMoneyUnited StatesDemocracyImpossibleConditionsNew YorkWillingBalanceEuropeIndependentTradeFinancialInternationalActiveSettingConclusionSettingsDepartmentPoolTransformedReservesBankingBankersConsumingManufacturingNew World OrderSettlementTreasuryFederal ReserveBanking SystemClose RelationshipBankers And BanksEurope And America Author:Louis Thomas McFadden
“There is no real peace in Europe, if the states are reconstituted on a basis of national sovereignty. (…) They must have larger markets. Their prosperity is impossible, unless the States of Europe form themselves in a European Federation.” IfsRealStatesFormImpossibleEuropeBasesProsperitySovereigntyFederationNational Sovereignty Author:Jean Monnet
“I bold it impossible, that the great monarchies of Europe can subsist much longer; they all affect magnificence and splendor.” ThinkingLastsImpossibleRevolutionEuropeMonarchyFrench Revolution Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau