#european

England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#england #european #last #madhouse #nothing

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#any #background #college #come #european

The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#brand #european #fascism #latin #latin america

My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#bits and pieces #catch #cinema #european #films

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded. ↗

— Simone Weil

#becoming #cannot #catholic #centuries #christian

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe. ↗

— Simone Weil

#civilized #destroy #enslave #europe #european

I've said before that the Ryder Cup is not the European Tour versus the American Tour. It's Europe's best golfers against the US. ↗

— Lee Westwood

#american #before #best #cup #europe

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#consists #european #footnotes #general #philosophical

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages. ↗

— Benjamin Whorf

#languages #metaphysical #most #nouns #verbs

Greece's European neighbors were able step in and bolster the weak foundation on which Greece's free-spending budget was based. It would be difficult for any country, or intergovernmental organization, to rescue an economy the size of the U.S. if investors were ever to lose faith in our bonds because of our enormous debt. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#any #based #because #bolster #bonds