Quotes of: Western-europe Keyword

But sovereign debt is a wider question not only in Europe but across the globe. While every country is a unique case, I think it's not an issue of countries acting on their own. We need a more coordinated strategy not only in Europe but around the wo...

George Papandreou

Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did. It is just happening much later than other continents because of the interruption of Africa's own historical development by the colonization of Afri...

John Prendergast

If we were to have a presidential election in Europe it would be an event that would spark a huge interest in people from Lisbon to Helsinki, just like national elections. And it would create a completely different political setting in Europe.

Wolfgang Schauble

In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

He caught her staring and smiled-not a conceited I-work-out-and-have-a-great-body type smirk, but more of a I’m-a-boy; you’re-a-girl; life is good.

Doms of Dark Haven 2: Western Nights

Use your safe word if you get scared, honey.” “I’m fine.” Her voice came out husky. “Yes, you are, aren’t you?

Doms of Dark Haven 2: Western Nights

Part of the terrible irony of war is that it enlists the best in human nature for purposes of mutual destruction.

Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture

If Christianity is true, then every argument will, if pursued to the end, lead to Jesus.

The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.

All Quiet on the Western Front

We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

All Quiet on the Western Front

It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men. They are so much more energetic and compromising than the big fellows.

All Quiet on the Western Front

... We had suddenly learned to see. And we saw that there was nothing of their world left. We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

All Quiet on the Western Front

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

A History of Western Philosophy

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

A History of Western Philosophy

To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.

Love in the Western World

What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the satisfaction of love, but its passion. And passion means suffering.

Love in the Western World

He who suffers wins in politics. The martyr does not obtain the victory personally, but his group, his successors, win in the long run.

Out of Revolution: Autobiography of Western Man

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.

Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought

Men and women are hard ore, we do not go to slag in a mere few seasons of forge.

This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

I never really had any close friends in India, and I felt a terrible loneliness and isolation for many years. Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala