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.
Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.
Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the power of knowing an object through these representations (spontaneity [in the production] of concepts).
Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.
Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?
The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
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