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“An American professor complained that a crypto-Marxist like me was invited in the USA, and I was denounced by the press in Eastern European countries for being an accomplice of the dissidents. None of these descriptions is important by itself; taken together, on the other hand, they mean something. And I must admit that I rather like what they mean.”

Mean Important Country Hands Together Taken Presses Like Me Usa Description Professors Eastern Invited Marxist European Countries Dissidents Accomplices

Author:Michel Foucault

“Just imagine, more than half of the young people in the European Union do not have jobs. How can one explain that? How can one explain that to a working family, that produces goods and services, those who produce the olive oil that is a a main source of food in any European country? They humbly work the land with great effort and then the little resources they had saved in banks have now become dust simply because they did not have the means to withstand inflation produced by the adjustment policies.”

“This issue of expanding the reach of international criminal law by reliance on the use of Universal Jurisdiction by domestic courts needs to be balanced against the injustice of according impunity to those with strong geopolitical backing. It is notable that several western European countries backtracked on UJ after threats of retaliatory moves by the United States and Israel. There is no doubt that the domain of UJ is a geopolitical battleground.”

“I am actually quite encouraged and I think, actually, the UK is coping with globalisation a lot better than most other European countries. And that is reflected in the fact that (whilst of course there are people who are still unemployed) our unemployment rate is low and (whilst of course we need to export more) we are attracting a huge amount of inward investment into Britain.”

People Thinking Needs Stills Country Facts Courses Huge Amount Lows Investment Rate Britain Inward Unemployment Coping Unemployed European Countries Globalisation Unemployment Rate

Author:George Osborne

“Europe is war. Economic war. It is the increase of hostilities between the countries. Germans are denigrated as being cruel, the Greeks as fraudsters, the French as lazy. Ms. Merkel can't travel to any European country without being protected by hundreds of police. That is not brotherhood.”

War Country Economic Europe Increase Police Greek Lazy Brotherhood Protected Hostility European Countries

Author:Marine Le Pen

“To be honest, there are many things said about Russia because they have been demonized for years at the behest of the USA. It is part of the greatness of a European country to develop one's own opinion and to not view everything through the US lens. We have no lesson to teach Russia if we concurrently roll out the red carpet to Qatar, Saudi Arabia and China.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Said Country Views Opinion Teach Honest Greatness Lessons Red China Russia Being Honest Usa Lenses Carpet Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Red Carpet European Countries Qatar

Author:Marine Le Pen

“Angela Merkel can't travel to any European country without being protected by hundreds of police. That is not brotherhood.”

Country Police Brotherhood Protected European Countries Angela

Author:Marine Le Pen

“It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.”

People Long Country Running Difficult Example Unions Soviet Long Runs Soviet Union Eastern European Countries

Author:Dalai Lama

“Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.”

Years Country Whole Communication Hundred Europe Years Ago Rounds Globes Transport European Countries

Author:John Boyd Orr

“The fact that the Church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women, is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.”

Facts Church Constitution Convinced European Countries Ordination

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer. Why not? In the welfare state, there is no shame in doing so.”

Men Country States Young Parent Common Shame Various Welfare Young Man Why Not Welfare State European Countries

Author:Dennis Prager

“If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.”

Ifs Want Long Country Might Long Time Europe Turkeys European Countries

Author:Salman Rushdie

“The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans.”

Should Nations Loss Warning Sovereignty Lost Friendship European Countries

Author:Phyllis Schlafly

“Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.”

Speak Expression Europe European Countries

Author:Otto von Bismarck

“Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there. In some European countries, businesses were even allowed to deduct bribes as an expense.”

Littles Country Attention Paid Western Corruption Expenses Seventies Bribe Nineteen European Countries Bribery

Author:James Surowiecki

“England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.”

Lasts Cases Prove England Violent Revolutionary European Countries Madhouses

Book:Collected Writings and Speeches on Britain

Source: Collected Writings and Speeches on Britain

“There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege.”

Needs Country Law Lessons Europe Privilege Driving Drunk Repeats Offenders European Countries Drunk Driving

Book:I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up

Source: I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up

“Because European countries now resolve differences through negotiation and consensus, there's sometimes an assumption that the entire world functions in the same way. But let us never forget ... beyond Europe's borders, in a world where oppression and violence are very real, liberation is still a moral goal, and freedom and security still need defenders.”

“We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.”

Way Feels Kind Children Stills Important Country Hard Enough Jobs Force Support Positive Responsible Be Good Your Children European Countries Important Jobs

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.”

May Home Today Common Fate Century Europe Links Divides Linked European Countries

Author:Leonid Brezhnev

“I say to the [European countries]: Hurry up and apologize to our nation, because if you do not, you will regret it. This is because our nation is progressing and is victorious. Do not leave a black mark in the collective memory of the nation, because our nation will not forgive you.”

Ifs Country Nations Black Memories Progress Regret Mark Forgiving Collectives Apologizing European Countries You Will Regret Collective Memory

Author:Khaled Mashal

“I was playing catch with the European audience.”

Audience European Countries

Author:Charles Olson

“There is nothing wrong with us sitting down and arguing that issue, that we are a European country.”

Country Issues Sitting Down And Scary Arguing Sitting Down European Countries

Author:Pat Buchanan

“Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention without politics to nominate a leader who's out in front of nobody? Maybe our national mindlessness is the very thing that keeps us from turning into one of those smelly European countries full of pseudo-reds and crypto-fascists and greens who dress like forest elves.”

Way Country Whole America Political Life Is Culture Leader Democracy Fronts Dresses Forests Triumph Why Not Conventions Spectacular Fascists Pseudo European Countries Blah Smelly

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country, Balkan country, Caucasian country, neighbor to Africa, Black Sea country, Caspian Sea, all these.”

Country Black Sea Middle Neighbor Eastern Turkeys Asian European Countries Balkans Caucasian Asian Countries Caspian Sea

Author:Ahmet Davutoglu

“I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.”

Thinking Social Issues Constitution Following Dimensions Strongest Documents European Countries

Author:Jean-Pierre Raffarin

“Horsemeat in many European and Asian countries is consumed as a delicacy.”

Country Asian Consumed Delicacy European Countries Asian Countries

Author:Elton Gallegly

“A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.”

Different Country Tree South Species Forests Mexico Tropical European Countries

Author:Carlos Salinas de Gortari

“Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.”

Doe Race Europe Purity Continents Energetic European Countries

Author:H. A. L. Fisher

“I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.”

Film European Countries Kurosawa

Author:Ted Demme

“I strongly support European sanctions against Mugabe and his ruling clique. We must do all in our power to help the people of Zimbabwe achieve their freedom and prosperity once again.”

People Helping Support Achieve Prosperity Ruling Sanctions Zimbabwe European Countries Clique Mugabe

Author:Peter Hain

“Not only do we mock the Eurovision Song Contest itself, but we lampoon other European countries for taking it so seriously, and they all retaliate by voting for each other every year and ignoring our (sometimes) palpably superior songs. Accordingly, Britain has become the Millwall FC of Eurovision: we are hated, we know we are hated, and we pretend we are happy to be hated. It's actually quite a sad state of affairs.”

Knows World Years Country Sometimes States America Song Modern Affair Superiors Hated Britain Voting Contests Modern World Mock European Countries

Author:Marcus Berkmann

“In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.”

Mean Country Feelings Would Be Novel Expression Europe Symbolic Outrage European Countries

Author:Antonio Tabucchi

“Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.”

War Light Wish Europe Chaos Torches European Countries

Book:Hitler's Words

Source: Hitler's Words

“San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities”

Cities San Francisco European Countries American Cities Bay Area

Author:Cecil Beaton

“The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American”

Differences Air Childhood Car British European Countries Nannies Latina

Author:Lorna Luft

“To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries.”

Mean Country Together Social Economy Majority Injustice Social Life European Countries

Author:Aleksander Kwasniewski

“On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.”

Country Hands Offers Europe Majority Including Israel Japan Citizenship Birthright European Countries

Author:Nathan Deal

“But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.”

Country States America United United States Europe Finished Spots Maps Covered Eastern Here And There European Countries

Author:William Labov

“The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English.”

Stills Country Problem Faces Generations Europe Thirds France Immigrants Riot European Countries

Author:Bobby Jindal

“You know what the funniest thing about Europe is? It's the little differences.”

Knows Littles Country Differences Fiction Europe European Countries Pulp

Book:Pulp Fiction

Source: Pulp Fiction

“That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.”

Two Country Next Century Terrible Drama Hundred Europe Hopeful Reserved Questionable European Countries

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“That in order to achieve the triumph of liberty, justice and peace in the international relations of Europe, and to render civil war impossible among the various peoples which make up the European family, only a single course lies open: to constitute the United States of Europe”

Source: Selected writings [of] Michael Bakunin

“Europe is a state with several provinces”

Country States Europe Provinces European Countries

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“The Federated Republic of Europe-the United States of Europe-that is what must be. National autonomy no longer suffices. Economic evolution demands the abolition of national frontiers. If Europe is to remain split into national groups, then Imperialism will recommence its work. Only a Federated Republic of Europe can give peace to the world.”

Ifs World Giving Country States United United States Groups Economic Evolution Demand Europe Republic Splits Imperialism Autonomy Frontiers Abolition European Countries

Author:Leon Trotsky

“Why should there not be a European group which could give a sense of enlarged patriotism and common citizenship to the distracted peoples of this turbulent and mighty continent? And why should it not take its rightful place with other great groupings and help to shape the onward destinies of men?”

Men Giving Should Country Helping Common Destiny Groups Shapes Europe Continents Citizenship Distracted European Countries

Author:Winston Churchill

“If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity, and the glory which its three or four million people would enjoy.”

People Ifs Country Would Be Enjoy United Common Limits Glory Europe Prosperity Inheritance European Countries

Author:Winston Churchill

“My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!”

Country States United Liberty United States Europe Universal Revenge Republic Frontiers Fraternity European Countries Federation Continental

Author:Victor Hugo

“A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.”

Country States America Faces Form Nations United United States Sea Europe Reaching Brotherhood Reach Out Continents United States Of America Face To Face European Countries

Author:Victor Hugo

“Europe thus divided into nationalities freely formed and free internally, peace between States would have become easier: the United States of Europe would become a possibility.”

Country States United United States Possibility Easier Europe Divided Nationality European Countries

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

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