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“In the tropics the white feels weakened, or downright weak, whence comes the heightened tendency to outbursts of aggression. People who are polite, modest or even humble in Europe fall easily into a rage here, get into fights, destroy other people. . .”

People Feels Fall Fighting White Europe Weak Humble Rage Tendencies Aggression Modest Polite Outburst Tropics

Author:Ryszard Kapuscinski

“(I)t is highly questionable whether when 'Europe speaks with one voice', as we are so often told it is doing, anyone is really listening. Europe's reputation as a serious player in international affairs is unenviable. It is a feeble giant who desperate attempts to be taken seriously are largely risible. It has a weak currency and a sluggish inflexible economy, still much reliant on hidden protectionism. It has a shrinking, ageing, population and, with the exception of Britain, rather unimpressive armed forces and, not excepting Britain, muddled diplomacy.”

“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.”

“Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.”

Masters Europe Weak India Drinking South Tea South Africa Robbers Tea Drinking

Book:For Love Alone

Source: For Love Alone

“We find ourselves in a difficult situation in Europe. There's a crisis, weak growth, unemployment... my duty is to ensure that by the end of my mandate France is in a better state than it was at the beginning.”

Ends States Difficult Growth Situation Duty Europe Weak Crisis France Unemployment Mandates Difficult Situations

Author:Francois Hollande

“It had the effect of cementing the Anglo-American alliance. What's the good of having bases if when you want to use them you're not allowed to by the home country. It made America realise that Britain was her real and true friend, when they were hard up against it and wanted something, and that no one else in Europe was. They're a weak lot, some of them in Europe you know. Weak. Feeble.”

Ifs Knows Want Made Real Country Hard Use Home Wanted America Effects Europe Weak Bases Britain Realising True Friend Alliances Home Country

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“It is very difficult to enter a single currency zone having fairly weak economic parameters and maintain a favourable state of the economy, not to mention positive growth rates. We have witnessed it not only in Europe, but for example in Argentina (nearly 10 years ago or more), when they tied the national currency to the dollar and later they did not know what to do about it.”

Knows Years States Difficult Growth Economy Economic Example Europe Years Ago Weak Dollars Rate Zone Tied Currency Argentina Parameters

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Germany has become the economic heart of Europe because our leaders are weak. But Germany should never forget that France is Europe's political heart. What is happening here today foreshadows what will happen in the rest of Europe in the coming years: the great return of the nation-state, which they wanted to obliterate.”

Should Years Heart States Happens Today Wanted Political Nations Forget Leader Economic Return Happenings Europe Weak France Germany Never Forget

Author:Marine Le Pen

“Germany has become the economic heart of Europe because our leaders are weak.”

Heart Leader Economic Europe Weak Germany

Author:Marine Le Pen

“And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."”

World Said Stills War Sometimes Purpose Nations Interest Race Europe Weak Clean Historical Satan Crush Privacy Royal Royal Family Aggressors

Book:The Mysterious Stranger: and Other Stories

Source: The Mysterious Stranger: and Other Stories