Europe Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Europe.
Top Quotes
“Europe is and will be a Union of States.”
“Soon nostalgia will be another name for Europe.”
“Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.”
“Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.”
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“What is Europe really but a sterile trunk which owes everything to oriental grafts?”
“[I]n Europe, faced with the choice between human rights and gas, many politicians pick gas.”
“Contemporary Europe is a search for an exit from hell... Europe has always been a bloody place.”
“The USA will remain the only superpower. China is becoming an economic giant. Europe is being Islamicized.”
“There are only two kinds of states in Europe: small states, and small states that have not yet realised they are small.”
“For more than five hundred years the cardinal problem in defining Europe has centred on the inclusion or exclusion of Russia.”
“We have seen the Capitols and most of the principle towns and people, of every Country in Europe. I have not yet seen any to be jealous of.”
“Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world.”
“When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become corrupt as in Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there.”
“I have always found the word Europe on the lips of those politicians who wanted something from other Powers which they dared not demand in their own names.”
“The whole world ought to be opposed to Europe for its cruel history, Jack, and yet in favor of it because after about a thousand years it may have learned some sense.”
“The key point to bear in mind is that Russia cannot be in Europe without Ukraine also being in Europe, whereas Ukraine can be in Europe without Russia being in Europe.”
“It was the fate of Europe to be always a battleground. Differences in race, in religion, in political genius and social ideals, seemed always... to be invitations to contest by battle.”
“[Y]ou don’t have to talk about Nazis or Hitler or any of that to say the norm in Europe is competition, conflict. And if we think that that’s over, I think that history tells us otherwise.”
“Europe dominated the world, but it failed to dominate itself. For five hundred years Europe tore itself apart in civil wars.”