“For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good.” KnowsWholeCommunityEuropeWesternWestern Europe Author:Anatoly Chubais
“Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.” LowsEuropeWesternArguingDebateHistorianSovietInvasionLikelihoodGdpWestern Europe Author:Aldrich Ames
“Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are in the modern welfare state, whether in Western Europe or on this side of the Atlantic.” PeopleFeelsStatesSidesModernEuropeSlaveryWesternLibertarianWelfareEntitledWelfare StateWestern Europe Author:Thomas Sowell
“You should not do this, Comrade. We are only in the introductory stage yet, here in Western Europe. And in that stage it is better to encourage the fighters than the rulers.” ShouldStageEuropeEncouragementWesternFighterRulersComradeWestern Europe Author:Herman Gorter
“No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe has done during the last 900 years. It is impossible to explain this fact in purely economic terms by a materialistic interpretation of history. The principle of change has been a spiritual one and the progress of Western civilisation is intimately related to the dynamic ethos of Western Christianity, which has gradually made Western man conscious of his moral responsibility and his duty to change the world.” MenWorldYearsHas BeensMadeDoneFactsLastsSpiritualProcessTermResponsibilityMoralChristianityPrinciplesProgressImpossibleEconomicDutyConsciousEuropeProfoundWesternAncientClassicRelatedChanging The WorldInterpretationGreeceCivilisationMaterialisticEthosWorld ClassMoral ResponsibilityAncient GreeceWestern EuropeProcess Of Change Author:Christopher Dawson
“Modern language must be older than the cave paintings and cave engravings and cave sculptures and dance steps in the soft clay in the caves in Western Europe, in the Aurignacian Period some 35,000 years ago, or earlier. I can't believe they did all those things and didn't also have a modern language.” YearsBelieveI CanInspirationMotivationLanguageStepsModernPaintingPeriodsEuropeYears AgoWesternCavesSculptureClayWestern EuropeDance StepsModern LanguagesCave Paintings Author:Murray Gell-Mann
“Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.” IfsWorldAmericaCitiesEuropeAreasWesternLatinGlobesAsiaLatin AmericaNorth AmericaGdpWestern EuropeRural Areas Author:Lin Biao
“For the last one hundred and fifty years, the history of the House of Rothschild has been to an amazing degree the backstage history of Western Europe...Because of their success in making loans not to individuals but to nations, they reaped huge profits...Someone once said that the wealth of Rothschild consists of the bankruptcy of nations.” YearsHas BeensSaidLastsHouseIndividualNationsWealthHugeDegreesHundredEuropeWesternProfitJewFiftyLoanBankruptcyWestern EuropeRothschild Author:Frederic Morton
“What does it mean with regard to tactics, this fact that the proletariat of Western Europe stands all alone: that it has no prospect of any help whatsoever from any other class?” MeanDoeFactsHelpingClassPerspectiveEuropeRegardWesternTacticsAll AloneProletariatWestern Europe Author:Herman Gorter
“Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would also carry infection to Africa through Asia Minor and Egypt, and to Europe through Italy and France, already threatened by the strongest domestic Communist parties in Western Europe. The Soviet Union was playing one of the greatest gambles in history at minimal cost. It did not need to will all the possibilities. Even one or two offered immense gains. We and we alone were in a position to break up the play.” NeedsTwoWarPlayPartyBreakPossibilityPositionColdCostGainsEuropeUnionsWesternCorruptionEastFranceApplesIranStrongestCommunistSovietImmenseMinorsCold WarThreatenedEgyptAsiaSoviet UnionGreeceRottenGambleBarrelsInfectionCommunist PartyWestern Europe Author:Dean Acheson
“Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it.” PeopleCountryTelevisionEuropeWesternReactionsGermanyDukesWestern Europe Author:Norman Granz
“I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. 'Please don't take away our precious Soviet Union! - We demand the annihilation of all life on Earth!'” PeopleIfsFeelingsTodayEarthWonderStupidPleaseDemandWeaponsEuropeUnionsWesternNuclearErasGenocideSovietNuclear WeaponsSoviet UnionAnnihilationDeploymentWestern Europe Author:Craig Reucassel
“There is an enormous difference between Russia and Western Europe.” DifferencesEuropeWesternRussiaEnormousGdpWestern Europe Author:Herman Gorter
“The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its only resting place.” CountryEuropeWesternDrivenSilverAristocracyGdpWestern Europe Author:Richard P. Bland
“A relatively small and eternally quarrelsome country in Western Europe, fountainhead of rationalist political manias, militarily impotent, historically inglorious during the past century, democratically bankrupt, Communist-infiltrated from top to bottom.” CountryPastPoliticalCenturyEuropeWesternBottomCommunistManiaFountainheadWestern Europe Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.
“Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan.” ImportantUseForceDealsExistenceSituationHugeEuropeUltimateWesternNuclearAfghanistanConfrontationWestern Europe Author:Lloyd Cutler