European

Famous quotes containing the word european:

“So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

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

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