Malcolm X Quotes

Renaissance or the reawakening of Europe. And, and this reawakening actually involved an era during which the people of Europe, who were coming out of the Dark Ages, were then adopting the value system of the people in the East, in the, of the oriental society.

My contention is that if you trace it back, it was the people of the East who brought them out of the Dark Ages, who brought about the period, or ushered in or initiated the atmosphere that brought into Europe the period known as the Renaissance.

How can one ignore the role of Islamic culture in European civilization?

Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin.

Europe has an incredibly long, bloody history based on an excess of nationalism which has also created a lot of amazing art. The issue is that America also imported a lot of that wholesale, dropped it onto this other big continent over the sea, and that's worked really well so far, but my view is that a little breather is necessary to make sure that - because Europe is about to fall, Sweden is going, Germany is going, France is going, America is going to be the preserver of that inheritance.

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.

Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.

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.

As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity.

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

I have a very strong identity that connects me to Argentina and to Latin America, but at the same time, I have a deep connection to the music from the United States and music from Europe, too.

It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages.

In Europe, unlike the States, they have a cultural policy.

The fate of our country, and hence of the world, depends on the degree to which the American people achieve liberal education. It is a process…of placing in the hands of the American people the means of continuing and revitalizing Western civilization, for the sake of the West and for the sake of all mankind.

America. Emigration. In the distinctions of the genius of the American race it is to be considered that it is not indiscriminate masses of Europe that are shipped hitherward, but the Atlantic is a sieve through which only or chiefly the liberal, adventurous, sensitive, America-loving part of each city, clan, family are brought. It is the light complexion, the blue eyes of Europe that come: the black eyes, the black drop, the Europe of Europe, is left [in Europe].

The superiority of the Arab civilization, especially in Spain and Sicily, was the chief agency which awakened Europe after six centuries of barbarism.

Islam was Europe's teacher. From the eighth to the 12th centuries.

America is the result of the amalgam of three people: Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans

Once Europe existed in a Dark Age and Islam carried the torch of learning. Now we Muslims live in a Dark age.

I was proud my father spoke Arabic fluently - his father sent him to learn Arabic from a sheikh - and we had Arab friends. His task of understanding the Arabs - not only politics but poetry - was very important; he took it as a vocation.

From the very beginning, Europe has been not only a success story but also a story of success achieved by learning.

Down through the centuries, the Czech Republic, the territory of the Czech Republic has been a place of cultural exchange.

I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.