Believe in individual initiatives, in courage, in risk.
Emmanuel MacronRead
Brexit is the other face of the refugee crisis - tensions that lead to stasis, external risks that lead to asymmetric shocks.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Brexit reflects the underlying tensions and crises that can destabilize nations and economies.
In this quote, Emmanuel Macron suggests that Brexit is not an isolated event but is deeply interconnected with global issues such as the refugee crisis. He highlights how political decisions, like Brexit, arise from tensions and uncertainties that can cause stability to falter, leading to unpredictable consequences or 'asymmetric shocks' on the international stage.
Themes
BrexitRefugee CrisisTensionsStasisAsymmetric Shocks
In practice
Example use cases
During a speech about the European Union, one might reference this quote to discuss the interconnectedness of political events.
More from Emmanuel Macron
All quotes βEurope and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of the enlightenment everywhere.
Emmanuel MacronRead
A romantic or classical view of the French approach would have been to say, 'It's a French company; let no one attack it. Let's block any merger. But the reality is Alcatel-Lucent is not a French company; it's a global company. Its main markets are China and the U.S. Its ownership is foreign; most of its managers aren't French.
Emmanuel MacronRead
Popularity isn't my compass. Unless it can help one to act, to be understood... that's what counts.
Emmanuel MacronRead
Our mission... it will be difficult, it will take time, it will be demanding for all men and women... will be to act in such a way that French people of the Muslim faith are always more proud of being French than of being Muslim.
Emmanuel MacronRead
I will defend Europe; it is our civilisation which is at stake... I will work to rebuild ties between Europe and its citizens.
Emmanuel MacronRead
Similar quotes
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
Grover ClevelandRead
A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
Paul WellstoneRead
Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable β the art of the next best
Otto Von BismarckRead
Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The record of past history is the record, not of the success of republics, but of their failure.
Calvin CoolidgeRead
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
Ronald ReaganRead
If, then, the control of the people over the organs of their government be the measure of its republicanism, and I confess I know no other measure, it must be agreed that our governments have much less of republicanism than ought to have been expected; in other words, that the people have less regular control over their agents, than their rights and their interests require.
Thomas JeffersonRead