Top Europe Quotes
If the teachings of the Protestants in Europe gave birth to the Protestant ethics and the modern civilization, it becomes alarming that most of our charismatic teachings today mainly concentrate on in...
Sunday Adelaja
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aggrandizement, alarming, becomes, birth, charismatic, civilizations, concentrate, ethics, europe, gave
Actually—and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable—some such divine claim underlay not just 'the occupation' but the whole idea of a separate state for Jews in Palestine. Take away th...
Christopher Hitchens
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britain, colonialism, europe, holy land, irony, israel, israeli palestinian conflict, jews, land, palestine
It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and so painfully died. One of the things that causes some critics to marvel at Miss Austen is t...
Christopher Hitchens
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1960s, countryside, cruelty, earl of bessborough, england, europe, gassing, hampshire, hiroshima, jane austen
Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks. Why if I spend half the month in healthy scholarship...
Roman Payne
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ancient greece, ancient greeks, balance, beauties, cycles, europe, full moon, greece, lifestyle, moon
Suppose that a man leaps out of a burning building—as my dear friend and colleague Jeff Goldberg sat and said to my face over a table at La Tomate in Washington not two years ago—and lands on a bystan...
Christopher Hitchens
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analogies, arabs, colonialism, crusades, europe, history, injustice, israel, israeli palestinian conflict, jaffa
When I was a schoolboy in England, the old bound volumes of Kipling in the library had gilt swastikas embossed on their covers. The symbol's 'hooks' were left-handed, as opposed to the right-handed on...
Christopher Hitchens
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1945, adolf hitler, england, europe, fascism, fascism in europe, hinduism, nazis, rudyard kipling, school