Yet another thing Canadians and European...

Obsession

Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.

- Timothy Garton Ash

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

- Francis Bacon

Other quotes by Timothy Garton Ash

Balance World

That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.

- Timothy Garton Ash

Creativity

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

- Timothy Garton Ash

Violence Past

One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image.

- Timothy Garton Ash

Time

Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time.

- Timothy Garton Ash

Women Men

No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated six to seven million of them, or more than 10% of the population.

- Timothy Garton Ash

Obsession

Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.

- Timothy Garton Ash

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Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

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