If someone complains about Europe from Monday to Saturday, then nobody is going to believe him on Sunday when he says he is a convinced European.
Interpretation
Consistency in beliefs is important for credibility.
Jean-Claude Juncker's quote highlights the importance of maintaining consistent beliefs and attitudes. If someone expresses negative feelings about a concept or place throughout the week but suddenly claims to be a supporter, their sincerity is likely to be questioned, emphasizing that true conviction requires ongoing commitment and sincerity over time.
In practice
In a debate about European policies, one could use this quote to emphasize the importance of consistent engagement.
I believe that if we don't offer legal ways of emigrating to Europe and immigrating within Europe, we will be lost. If those who come - who are, generally speaking, the poor and needy - are no longer able to enter the house of Europe through the front door, they'll keep making their way in through the back windows.
Of course Brexit means that something is wrong in Europe. But Brexit means also that something was wrong in Britain.
The rule of law means that law and justice are upheld by an independent judiciary. The judgments of the European Court of Justice have to be respected by all. To undermine them, or to undermine the independence of national courts, is to strip citizens of their fundamental rights. The rule of law is not optional in the European Union. It is a must.
It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil.
I've been working on issues of poverty for more than 20 years, and so it's ironic that the problem that and question that I most grapple with is how you actually define poverty. What does it mean?
Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs β in time, in space, and in potential β the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors.
Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.
The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.
The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.
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