(544 quotes found)
“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!'”
Craig Bruce
“Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.”
Daniel Bell
“Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.”
Will Rogers
“YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMNYANK.)”
Ambrose Bierce
“We go to Europe to be Americanized.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Europe, partly because of the sort of political miracle it accomplished on the European continent, has developed a very strong faith in international institutions, international legal mechanisms, as the key to international order, and have really begun to view military power as an illegitimate form of activity, but in any case, something that is to be avoided at almost all costs.”
Robert Kagan
“Can we never extract the tapeworm of Europe from the brain of our countrymen?”
“The Huns cross Europe, raping and pillaging, ... You know? That's only half a line, so that must take 12 seconds.”
Jim Jarmusch
“I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.”
Jack Osbourne
“Humans have been evolving for millions of years longer in Africa than in Europe, and even anatomically modern Homo sapiens may have reached Europe from Africa only within the last 50,000 years. If time were a critical factor in the development of human societies, Africa should have enjoyed an enormous head start and advantage over Europe.”
Jared Diamond
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