Europe Quotes — Page 35

Philosopher, Writer

“Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated and therefore necessarily enfeebled humanity as that of modern Europe not only needs wars, but the greatest and most terrible wars, consequently occasional relapses into barbarism, lest, by the means of culture, it should lose its culture and its very existence.”

Mean War Europe

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of the best and the worst: the grand style in morality, the fearfulness and majesty of infinite demands, of infinite significations, the whole Romanticism and sublimity of moral questionableness - and consequently just the most attractive, ensnaring, and exquisite element in those iridescences and allurements to life, in the aftersheen of which the sky of our European culture, its evening sky, now glows - perhaps glows out.”

Style Europe Sky

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.”

Men Passion Europe

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.”

Country Drama Europe

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Khaled Hosseini

Author, Physician

“I feel like we [americans] are a unique nation in this world, in that we are able to implement great change in our society over a relatively short period of time. What takes centuries in Europe, we accomplish in a generation.”

World Unique Europe

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist

“I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little--not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a diving-bell.”

Europe Russia Turkeys

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist

“The cigar-box which the European calls a 'lift' needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between floors. That is all right in a hearse, but not in elevators. The American elevator acts like a man's patent purge-it works.”

Men Science Europe

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist

“As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.”

Ideas Europe Backwards

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosopher, Writer

“In a country lacking leaders, in Africa, for instance, how could a native educated in Europe refuse to become a professor, even at the price of his literary vocation?”

Country Leader Europe

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John Lennon

Musician, Activist

“Most of the songs came from Europe and Africa and now they were coming back to us. Many of [Bob] Dylan's best songs came from Scotland, Ireland or England. It was a sort of cultural exchange.”

Song Europe Scotland

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JB

Judith Butler

Philosopher, Gender Theorist

“In the US the problem has been, for instance, that Nazis have rights of free expression, right? But other kinds of racist speech is not protected. And you have to link the speech to conduct or to a certain kind of threat against minority population. I know that in Europe, this kind of framework doesn't exist in the same way so it's very difficult to make the analogy.”

Rights Expression Europe

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Novelist, Philosopher

“Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.”

Europe Russia Asia

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