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As to the territorial limits of Europe, they may seem relatively clear on its seaward flanks, but many island groups far to the north and west—Svalbard, the Faroes, Iceland, and the Madeira and Canary islands—are considered European, while Greenland though tied politically to Denmark is conventionally allocated to North America. Furthermore, the Mediterranean coastlands of North Africa and southwestern Asia also exhibit some European physical and cultural affinities. Turkey and Cyprus in particular, while geologically Asian, possess elements of European culture and may be regarded as parts of Europe.Encyclopædia Britannica, Europe

Translation: Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world.

— Europe world

Washington wrote to Lafayette that he considered himself a citizen of the great republic of humanity, adding: I see the human race a great family, united by fraternal bonds. Elsewhere he wrote prophetically: We have sown a seed of liberty and union that will gradually germinate throughout the earth. Some day, on the model of the United States of America, will be constituted the United States of Europe.

1 Quotes1.1 Divisions of Europe 1.2 Europe as a declining continent 1.3 Unification of Europe 1.4 Politics of Europe 1.5 Definitions of Europe by geography or culture 1.6 Europe and the World 1.7 Reaction to European Constitution 1.8 Genetics

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I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely distinct from ours They are nations of eternal war.Thomas Jefferson

You know what the funniest thing about Europe is? It’s the little differences.Quentin Tarantino

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.Friedrich Nietzsche

— Europe hope

I doubt that the evil spirits of the past, under which we in Europe have already suffered more than enough this century, have been banished for ever.Helmut Kohl

— Europe past

There is no freedom in Europe — thats certain — it is besides a worn out portion of the globe.Lord Byron

— Europe freedom

I am worn down, and worn out, with crusading and defending Europe, and protecting mankind; I must think a little of myself.Sydney Smith

— Europe self

Positively I sit here, and look at Europe sink, first one deck disappearing, then another, and the whole ship slowly plunging bow-down into the abyss; until the nightmare gets to be howling. The Roman Empire was a trifle to it.Henry Brooks Adams

The more I live here in western Europe, the more I am impressed by the sense of decay;not the graceful and dignified decay of an oriental, but the vulgar and sordid decay of a bankrupt cotton-mill.Henry Brooks Adams

— Europe grace

The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities.Antonin Artaud

I have no more patience for this Europe where Autumn wears the face of Spring and Spring reeks of misery.Albert Camus

— Europe patience

Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order to die.Albert Camus

That in order to achieve the triumph of liberty, justice and peace in the international relations of Europe, and to render civil war impossible among the various peoples which make up the European family, only a single course lies open: to constitute the United States of EuropeMikhail Bakunin

LEurope est un Etat composé de plusieurs provinces.Translation: Europe is a state with several provinces. Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu

The Federated Republic of Europe—the United States of Europe—that is what must be. National autonomy no longer suffices. Economic evolution demands the abolition of national frontiers. If Europe is to remain split into national groups, then Imperialism will recommence its work. Only a Federated Republic of Europe can give peace to the world.Leon Trotsky

— Europe peace

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.Leonid Brezhnev

— Europe fate

If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity, and the glory which its 300,000,000 or 400,000,000 people would enjoy.Winston Churchill

— Europe happiness

A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood A day will come when we shall see the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.Victor Hugo

— Europe america

Europe thus divided into nationalities freely formed and free internally, peace between States would have become easier: the United States of Europe would become a possibility.Napoleon

— Europe peace

The ocean is rough and whirling, and the currents go to two possible endings: the autocrat, or the United States of Europe.Carlo Cattaneo

— Europe ocean

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.Aldous Huxley

If you live in Europe things change but continuity never seems to break. You dont have to throw the past away.Nadine Gordimer

— Europe change

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.James Baldwin

— Europe life

Two principles, according to the Settembrinian cosmogony, were in perpetual conflict for possession of the world: force and justice, tyranny and freedom, superstition and knowledge; the law of permanence and the law of change, of ceaseless fermentation issuing in progress. One might call the first the Asiatic, the second the European principle.Thomas Mann

— Europe knowledge

I know that Europe’s wonderful, yet something seems to lack; The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back.Henry Van Dyke

— Europe people

Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones of our ancestors, and the stones of their works, are everywhere. Our liberties were won in wars and revolutions so terrible that we do not fear our governors: they fear us. Our children giggle and eat ice-cream in the palaces of past rulers. We snap our fingers at kings. We laugh at popes. When we have built up tyrants, we have brought them down. And we have nuclear *fucking* weapons.Ken Macleod

— Europe fear

If I knew something useful to my country and harmful to Europe, or useful to Europe and harmful to the human race, I should consider it a crime.Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.Mary McCarthy

It is a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious evaluation of Europe.Henry James

— Europe fate

In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.D. H. Lawrence

— Europe choice

Until now when we have started to talk about the uniqueness of America we have almost always ended by comparing ourselves to Europe. Toward her we have felt all the attraction and repulsions of Oedipus.Daniel J Boorstin

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