Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor Ponta

Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.

Vaclav Klaus

EU didn't advance our [Eastern Europe] democracy by a single millimeter.

Vaclav Klaus

The development of European integration can be divided into two phases. The first era ended with the Maastricht Treaty. It was a liberalization phase, with the main goal of European integration at the time being the removal of various barriers and borders in Europe. The second phase is a homogenization or standardization phase, one that involves regulation from the top and growing control over our lives. This no longer has anything to do with freedom and democracy.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.

Sylvia Plath

I decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover, and that I would never learn a word of shorthand. If I never learned shorthand I would never have to use it.

Sylvia Plath

I had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover.

Swami Vivekananda

Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want reason.

Tom Araya

Oh yeah, our first tour in Europe they wouldn't give me the time off from work.

Stanley Baldwin

Whether we like it or not we are consideably bound to Europe.

Sun Ra

Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me.

The natural geopolitical arrangement is for Europe to be part of Eurasia, especially for Germany to develop trade and investment relationships with Russia.

Randy Newman

Asia's crowded and Europe's too old, Africa is far too hot and Canada's too cold. And South America stole our name, let's drop the big one.

Norman Granz

In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland.

Mark Zuckerberg

Berlin definitely has one of the most vibrant of the startup scenes that I have seen. Not really just across Europe, but across the whole world in terms of cities. It's an interesting dynamic.

Theodore White

America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.

Margaret Sanger

Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.

Margaret Sanger

The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.

Margaret Sanger

The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.

Margaret Sanger

Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.

Ryanair's biggest achievement? Bringing low fares to Europe and still lowering em. Biggest failure? Hiring me.

Mathieu Amalric

There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.

Patricia Briggs

Sometimes I have the urge to conquer large parts of Europe.

Plautus

Your wealth is where your friends are

Martin Schulz

Complementing the nation-state as it reaches its limits amid globalization: That is what Europe must offer.

Martin Schulz

For German Social Democracy, Europe is vital to the national interest.

Martin Schulz

Europe was founded as a community bound together by solidarity.

Martin Schulz

We agree: Brussels can't regulate everything. I'm driven by something else: There are forces in Europe that want to generally give national policy priority over a common European approach. We have to prevent this.

Johnny Depp

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.

John T. Flynn

We must rid this nation of the United Nations, which provides the communist conspiracy with a headquarters here on our own shores, and which actually makes it impossible for the United States to form its own decisions about its conduct and policies in Europe and Asia.

John Redwood

We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced by European bureaucracy in so many areas.

Mark Steyn

Europe by the end of this century will be a continent after the neutron bomb. The grand buildings will still be standing, but the people who built them will be gone.

Mark Steyn

In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter?

Marjorie Scardino

The politics of Europe is unimaginative and bureaucratic.