Building Union among people not cooperation between states
Jean MonnetRead
The countries of Europe are too small to guarantee their peoples the necessary prosperity and social development. The European states must constitute themselves into a federation.
Interpretation
What this quote means
European countries should unite for better prosperity and social development.
Jean Monnet suggests that the individual countries of Europe are not large enough to ensure the well-being and advancement of their citizens. He advocates for the formation of a federation of European states, which would allow for collective strength and shared resources to tackle the challenges of prosperity and social development more effectively.
Themes
EuropeFederationUnityProsperityDevelopment
In practice
Example use cases
In a discussion about European politics, to emphasize the need for collaboration among nations.
More from Jean Monnet
All quotes βNothing is possible without men; nothing is lasting without institutions.
Jean MonnetRead
To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless.
Jean MonnetRead
Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do.
Jean MonnetRead
Nothing is possible without men, but nothing lasts without institutions.
Jean MonnetRead
There is no future for the people of Europe other than in union.
Jean MonnetRead
Similar quotes
Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.
Bill MoyersRead
Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.
William HagueRead
So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.
Dwight D. EisenhowerRead
Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.
George MonbiotRead
I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong...not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of.
Winston ChurchillRead
I don't want to interfere in U.S. elections.
Volodymyr ZelenskyRead