“Liberty is so great a magician, endowed with so marvelous a power of productivity, that under the inspiration of this spirit alone, North America was able within less than a century to equal, and even surpass, the civilization of Europe.” InspirationAbleAmericaSpiritLibertyCenturyCivilizationEqualEuropeProductivityMarvelousMagicianNorth America Author:Mikhail Bakunin
“Unless legal and illegal immigration is halted and reversed, European First World nations across all of Europe from Spain to Russia, North America, Australia and New Zealand - will be destroyed and have their very culture and civilisation changed to that of the Third World. Immigration is now the single most important issue facing all First World nations, and will determine whether Western Civilisation continues to exist or not.” WorldFirstsImportantAmericaCultureNationsIssuesChangedEuropeThirdsWesternDetermineRussiaImmigrationDestroyedAustraliaIllegalSpainCivilisationThird WorldNorth AmericaNew ZealandIllegal ImmigrationImportant IssuesAustralia And New Zealand Author:Arthur Kemp
“Over the last few years, the Islamic world has produced more female presidents and prime ministers than both Europe and North America combined.” WorldYearsLastsAmericaPresidentEuropeFemaleMinistersIslamicPrimePrime MinisterNorth AmericaFemale President Author:Reza Aslan
“We had very good discussions on current security challenges and NATO's continued adaptation to meet them. Canada is a committed ally and a capable contributor to international security. We appreciate your quick decision to deploy forces, planes and ships to strengthen our collective defence in view of Russia's aggressive actions in Ukraine, as well as your contribution to the international anti-ISIL coalition. Canada plays a major part in our decision-making and helps keep the vital bond between Europe and North America strong.” WellsPlayHelpingActionAmericaStrongForceChallengesDecisionViewsSecurityMajorsCapableEuropeAppreciateVery GoodInternationalCurrentsCommittedRussiaShipsPlanesDiscussionContributionCanadaCollectivesDecision MakingAlliesAggressiveNational SecurityAdaptationDefenceUkraineCoalitionsNatoNorth AmericaContributorsAppreciate YouIsilQuick Decisions Author:Jens Stoltenberg
“I thought that when they said Atlantic Charter, that meant me and everybody in Africa and Asia and everywhere. But it seems like the Atlantic is an ocean that does not touch anywhere but North America and Europe.” DoeSaidSeemsAmericaOceanEuropeThey SaidAsiaNorth AmericaCharter Book:I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
“Industrialized countries have disproportionately more cancers than countries with little or no industry (after adjusting for age and population size). One half of all the world's cancers occur in people living in industrialized countries, even though we are only one-fifth of the world's population. Closely tracking industrialization are breast cancer rates, which are highest in North America and northern Europe, intermediate in southern Europe and Latin America, and lowest in Asia and Africa.” PeopleWorldLittlesCountryAgeAmericaHalfIndustryHighestEuropeEnvironmentalRateSizePopulationCancerBreastsLatinSouthernPollutionLowestAsiaFifthLatin AmericaBreast CancerNorth AmericaOne HalfAdjustingTrackingIndustrialization Author:Sandra Steingraber
“For more than 3,000 years, China and India accounted for half of the world's economic output. But then the Industrial Revolution gave North America and Europe 150 golden years. If you take the long-term perspective, our economic dominance has been more of an exception than the rule.” IfsWorldYearsLongHas BeensAmericaTermHalfEconomicRevolutionPerspectiveEuropeIndiaChinaGoldenLong TermExceptionDominanceNorth AmericaOutputIndustrial RevolutionChina And IndiaGolden Years Author:Paul Achleitner
“Expert victimologists estimate that 91.2 percent of people in North America and Europe now qualify as victims, at least in their own minds.” PeopleMindAmericaPercentEuropeVictimExpertsNorth America Author:John Leo
“In North America and Western Europe, ten percent of the population of the world consumes fifty percent of its energy.” WorldAmericaEnergyTenPercentEuropeWesternPopulationFiftyNorth AmericaWestern Europe Author:Yehuda Levi
“Just when I get my church all sorted out, sheep from the goats, saved from the damned, hopeless from the hopeful, somebody makes a move, get out of focus, cuts loose, and I see why Jesus never wrote systematic theology. So you and I can give thanks that the locus of Christian thinking appears to be shifting from North America and northern Europe where people write rules and obey them, to places like Africa and Latin America where people still know how to dance.” PeopleThinkingKnowsGivingWritingStillsI CanChristianAmericaMovingJesusChurchKnow HowFocusCuttingEuropeSavedTheologyThanksHopefulHopelessLatinSheepShiftingLatin AmericaSystematicGoatsNorth AmericaMake A Move Author:William Henry Willimon
“The climate of this planet has been changing since God put the planet here. It will always change, and the warming in the last 10 years is not much difference than the warming we saw in the 1930s and other decades. And, lets not forget we are at the end of the ice age in which ice covered most of North America and Northern Europe.” YearsHas BeensEndsAgeLastsAmericaDifferencesForgetSawsPlanetsEuropeClimateDecadesIceCovered1930sNorth AmericaIce Age Author:James Spann
“In North America, hip-hop and urban music are much more developed than it could be in Europe, except for a couple of markets like France, for example, or Germany, they're a little bit more aware.” LittlesAmericaBitsExampleCoupleLittle BitEuropeHip HopHipsFranceGermanyHopsUrbanNorth AmericaUrban Music Author:K-Maro
“We've seen progressive rock all over the world, in South America, Europe, Asia, across the US and North America and Australia. There's huge audiences for this stuff. For me it's always been there and it's just a matter of time before the people have more of the means to spread the word.” PeopleWorldMeanMatterAmericaStuffAudienceRocksHugeEuropeSouthSpreadAustraliaProgressiveAsiaNorth AmericaSouth AmericaMatter Of Time Author:John Petrucci
“In Western Europe and North America some things are better than they were - at least relative to their moral nadirs - such as labour legislation, the opening of the professions to women, intolerance for domestic violence, but so much is still morally unacceptable - the weapons trade, cruel and unusual punishment, economic parasitism.” StillsAmericaMoralViolenceEconomicWeaponsEuropeTradeWesternProfessionPunishmentOpeningLabourUnusualRelativeIntoleranceLegislationDomestic ViolenceNorth AmericaWestern EuropeNadirCruel And Unusual Punishment Author:Catherine Wilson
“Bloomberg TVThe one thing I think is likely to happen under either candidate is massive fiscal stimulus. You have so many voters in Western Europe and North America who've had no real income growth for over 10 years, and they are, in the words of Howard Beale, "Mad as hell and not going to take it anymore."” ThinkingYearsRealHappensAmericaGrowthHellOne ThingEuropeMadWesternIncomeCandidatesMassiveVotersStimulusNorth AmericaWestern Europe Author:Gary Shilling
“The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.” BodyAmericaCommonEuropeHarderWesternDeclineNorth AmericaWestern Europe Author:Susan Sontag
“Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have even joined).” AmericaEuropeWesternConservativeTendenciesNorth AmericaWestern EuropeDemoralized Author:Susan Sontag
“With Islamophobic tendencies in Europe and North America it is quite possible that Islamic leaders could be charged with 'political genocide'. An extremist American pastor in a small Florida church held a trial that convicted the Koran of encouraging the murder of non-Muslims and of being responsible for the 9/11 attacks. It is this sort of outlook that would be encouraged to claim that Islam embodied 'political genocide', a development that would have many negative effects on inter-civilisational relations within and among countries.” CountryWould BeAmericaPoliticalChurchLeaderEffectsDevelopmentEuropeNegativeClaimsRelationMurderResponsibleIslamTrialsTendenciesIslamicGenocideFloridaPastorOutlookExtremistBeing ResponsibleNorth AmericaBe Encouraged Author:Richard A. Falk
“It's tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia.” DifferentAmericaFiguresToughEuropeIndonesiaNorth AmericaLiving Wage Author:John Malkovich
“For many years, I have sought and studied Agarikon, an unusual mushroom native to the old growth conifer forests of North America and Europe.” YearsAmericaGrowthEuropeForestsNativeUnusualMushroomsNorth America Author:Paul Stamets
“Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems we squeeze more GDP out of a barrel of oil than in those benighted days.” SeemsAmericaEnergyIndustryEuropeHeavyOilDependent1960sBarrelsNorth AmericaGdp Author:James Buchan
“Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.” MenAmericaChoicesEconomyLandDemandEuropeDrivenRisingOpennessAsiaFlexibilityNorth AmericaCompetitivenessFetch Author:David Cameron
“The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice. This bitterly frigid climate is interrupted occasionally by brief warm interglacials, typically lasting less than 10,000 years. The interglacial we have enjoyed throughout recorded human history, called the Holocene, began 11,000 years ago, so the ice is overdue, Chapman wrote. All those urging action to curb global warming need to take off the blinkers and give some thought to what we should do if we are facing global cooling instead.” IfsNeedsGivingShouldYearsHumansActionAmericaConditionsTruth IsNormalEuropeYears AgoClimateWarmIceEnjoyedGlobal WarmingLastingBuriedHuman HistoryInterruptedBleakNorth AmericaCurbOverdueCoolingFrigidBlinkers Author:Philip K. Chapman
“President Bush has embarked on an eight-day tour of the continent. He hopes this one goes better than the other ones he's made recently. Obviously he's not doing that well in North America [on screen: '36% Approval'], his South American trip had a few bumps [on screen: 'Angry mobs of torch-carrying bumps'], Europe seems to think the president doesn't care what they think, but hey, who cares what they think? They could at least thank him for what he's done for their burning effigy industry.” ThinkingWellsMadeDoneSeemsCareAmericaPresidentIndustryEuropeAngrySouthEightScreensHeyBurningApprovalContinentsWho CaresPresident BushBumpsTorchesNorth America Author:Stephen Colbert
“As a Jew and a psychologist, I understand the stress that religious communities feel in connection with questioning of circumcision... I raise these questions out of deep caring and compassion, for our community generally, and our male infants in particular. We are inflicting, generally, unrecognized harm with circumcision, and the perpetuation of this harm is far greater a concern than the discomfort that comes from confronting the advisability of this practice. Many Jews who do not circumcise in North America, South America, Europe, and Israel support this view.” FeelsAmericaCommunityReligiousViewsCompassionPracticeSupportGreaterParticularEuropeConcernConnectionsStressRaisesSouthMalesJewIsraelCaringHarmQuestioningInfantDiscomfortPsychologistOur CommunityNorth AmericaConfrontingSouth AmericaCircumcisionReligious CommunityCaring And Compassion Author:Ronald Goldman