European Values Quotes

Russia itself is a European country, and not just because our major political and economic centres are in Europe, but because Russian culture is primarily European culture.

We Europeans will always have two fatherlands. One is Europe, and the other is our own country. It is unified in its diversity—this Europe.

Turkey shares Europe's fundamental values of democracy and the rule of law.

Unlike multiculturalism, cultural pluralism doesn't just mean diversity but also togetherness - primarily the understanding of the rules of the game - the European values structure.

I don't want to change Islam, but if there is to be a European Islam, it must incorporate European values.

As an ideologically based movement, socialism is no longer vital. Today it's a combination of democracy, rule of law and the welfare state, and I'd say a vast majority of Europeans defend this -- the British Tories can't touch the National Health Service without being beheaded.

In a free Europe... the system of power lies on three pillars. These are democracy, rule of law, and human rights. It's impossible to use one against the other.

I'm against the European Union, but I am very much in favor of Europe.

I'm a big believer in Europe.

[Helmut] Kohl said Europe must return to being a community committed to stability and the rule of law.

Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure.

The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.

I continue to believe when I said in Hanover, that the E.U. remains one of the world's great political and economic achievements, and that those achievements should not be taken for granted.

I'm a great supporter of the European Union. I didn't support entry to the Euro, not because I'm against it in principle but because I didn't think it was economically right for Britain. But that doesn't make me any less pro-European.

With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe.

Europe has never existed. One must genuinely create Europe.

I am not anti-European.

I'm very proudly European. I love that we have stories to tell of a place where we come from and we can relate to.

The break with and the rejection of Europe, decisive in the making of the American people, did not take place in Canada. In the formative period of Canadian history the immigrant's arrival in North America represented not a rejection of Europe and its values but an affirmation of them. This is the deepest and most meaningful difference between Canada and the United States.

You can't build Europe against anyone.

Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of Enlightenment, threatened in so many places.

In the past, Germany could rely on the French, the British and, especially, the Americans, to assert our interests in the world. We have always criticized the U.S. for being the global police, and it was often appropriate to do so. But we are now seeing what happens when the U.S. pulls back. If the U.S. leaves the room, other powers immediately walk in. In Syria, it's Russia and Iran. In trade policy, it's China. These examples show that, ultimately, we are no longer achieving either - neither the dissemination of our European values nor the advancement of our interests.

But what sets Europe apart is we insist on a social model that consists of solidarity, equal opportunity and a certain amount of redistribution.

Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.

Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity, but it needs to be rethought, refounded.