Quotes about Europe

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The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on — Slavoj Žižek
My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians — Terry Pratchett
If the people of Europe had known as much of astronomy and geology when the bible was introduced among them, as they do — Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses
The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race — Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerou — Winston S. Churchill, The River War
You alone in Europe are not ancient oh ChristianityThe most modern European is you Pope Pius XAnd you whom the windows o — Guillaume Apollinaire, Zone
There is of course a deep spiritual need which the pilgrimage seems to satisfy, particularly for those hardy enough to t — Edwin Mullins, The Pilgrimage to Santiago
All European writers are ‘slaves of their baptism,’ if I may paraphrase Rimbaud; like it or not, their writing carries b — Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked — James Madison
Actually—and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable—some such divine claim underlay not just 'the occupa — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
If the surprise outcome of the recent UK referendum - on whether to leave or remain in the European Union - teaches us a — Alex Morritt, Impromptu Scribe
Asia is an entertainment, Europe is a dream, America is an imprisonment and Rest is a nightmare. — Santosh Kalwar
So none of the young men we encountered during our season gave you hot pants for them?Belinda! Your language. I've been — Rhys Bowen, Her Royal Spyness
...The Presidential election has given me less anxiety than I myself could have imagined. The next administration will b — John Adams, Adams-Jefferson Letters
I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets. — Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy
That's my point: if you own thirty or more books, or you are reading any book at this moment, you may protest all you wa — Thomas Geoghegan, Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?: How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life
There is no envy, jealousy, or hatred between the different colors of the rainbow. And no fear either. Because each one — Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms a — Mahatma Gandhi
And I'll close by saying this. Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to tyranny and fascism a — Christopher Hitchens
Indeed, a parallel history of Europe could be written which viewed family life and regular work as the essential Contine — Simon Winder, Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History