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The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. — Edmund Burke · 1790Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder men everywhere they find them. — Frantz Fanon · 1961The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world. — Benjamin Disraeli · 1838When I search for man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders. — Frantz Fanon · 1961Now, you're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe. — Donald Rumsfeld · 2003I want the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make trading much easier. — Napoleon Bonaparte · 1807
The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. — Edmund Burke · 1790
Alienation1 quote
The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. — Edmund Burke · 1790
Now, you're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe. — Donald Rumsfeld · 2003
Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder men everywhere they find them. — Frantz Fanon · 1961
The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. — Edmund Burke · 1790
The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. — Edmund Burke · 1790
When I search for man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders. — Frantz Fanon · 1961
The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world. — Benjamin Disraeli · 1838
Iraq War1 quote
Now, you're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe. — Donald Rumsfeld · 2003