European

Famous quotes containing the word european:

“Assassination is the perquisite of princes.”
—19th-century European court cliché.

“Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.”
—Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908)

“Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)