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If we allow one of the finest and the richest languages in Europe, which, fifty years ago, was spoken by nearly four million Irishmen, to die out without a struggle, it will be an everlasting disgrace, and a blighting stigma upon our nationality.

Unless the American Liberal idea of the peace ultimately prevails with us and replaces the more official idea of a territorial peace, sustained by armaments, British progress to democracy must suffer arrest [...] The entry of America into the war is the best hope that offers the return to power of Liberal democracy in Europe.

Henry William Massingham

Life is much more simple and straightforward here [in Mauritania]. I don't feel at home in Europe anymore. Too many rules. You need a diploma for everything. It's too much for me. [...] For me, life is very simple. I'm easily satisfied. Work, make a little money, eat, drink, sleep. That's it.

Quoting Alexander Dewilde, a Belgian man that moved to Mauritania in 2000

Jeroen van Bergeijk

I thought that when they said Atlantic Charter, that meant me and everybody in Africa and Asia and everywhere. But it seems like the Atlantic is an ocean that does not touch anywhere but North America and Europe.

Zora Neale Hurston

When America has been discovered in America it will be discovered in Europe. They are looking for America now.

Gerald Stanley Lee

It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.

The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics.

ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.

Thomas Bulfinch

I am not afraid that the people called Methodists should ever cease to exist either in Europe or America. But I am afraid lest they should only exist as a dead sect, having the form of religion without the power. And this undoubtedly will be the case unless they hold fast both the doctrine, spirit, and discipline with which they first set out.

What I have to tell you is this: I am resolved that dancing is to be my path. I know that to be a dancer is to be considered in our world little more than a prostitute. But you cannot imagine what is happening here in Berlin. It is different back home, but in Europe dance is being reborn as something more than cheap entertainment by loose women.

Wendy Buonaventura

Perhaps there is no literature in Europe that mirrors so clearly as the Portuguese, the painful conflict in the minds of people who, on the one hand, by their humanistic education, not only knew better but also more uncritically admired, ancient learning than their medieval predecessors, and, who, on the other hand, in the same epoch, were confronted with abundant proofs of the insufficiency and fallibility of that same Antiquity.

Reijer Hooykaas

YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown.

America is divided by a great argument about itself. Europe is divided by a great argument about America.

Timothy Garton Ash

If Africa was the cradle of mankind, it was only an indifferent kindergarten. Europe and Asia were our principal schools.

Carleton S. Coon

In America there is really very little knowledge of the literature of the rest of the world. Of the literature of Latin America, yes, But that's not all that different in inspiration from that of America, or of Europe. One must go further. You don't even have to go too far in terms of geography - you can start with the Native Americans and listen to their poetry.

Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.

I can't tell you what it's like to be in Europe, for example, to be talking about the greatness of America. But the true greatness of America are the people.

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

Peter Lewis Allen

When the white race broke out of Europe 500 years ago, it did many astounding things all over the globe. Inspired by a raging sky-god, the whites were able to pretend that their conquests were in order to bring the One God to everyone, particularly those with older and subtler religions.

If the people in Europe are SOOOOOO smart, how come so many of them can't seem to locate the deodorant, huh?

My real journey had very little to do with traveling Europe, and a whole lot to do with traveling my own mind.

Christina Baldwin

Jewish people have been victims of anti-Semitism in many parts of the world, and in Europe they were the target of the Holocaust, the ultimate abomination. Yet, we cannot expect Palestinians to accept this as a reason why the wrongs done to them

To enter Europe, you must have a valid passport with a photograph of yourself in which you look like you are being booked on charges of soliciting sheep.

You never observe a great intellectual movement in Europe in which the
Jews do NOT greatly participate. The first Jesuits were Jews.

Benjamin Disraeli

'Tis Liberty that crowns Britannia's isle, and makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile... 'Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, and hold in balance each contending state, To threaten bold presumptuous kings with war, and answer her afflicted neighbours' prayer... Soon as her fleets appear their terrors cease.