Jean Monnet famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Europeâ€™s nations should be guided towards the superstate without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps, each disguised as having an economic purpose, but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to federation.
-- Jean Monnet

#Europe #People #Understanding
Make men work together show them that beyond their differences and geographical boundaries there lies a common interest.
-- Jean Monnet

#Lying #Men #Differences
Europe has never existed. One must genuinely create Europe.
-- Jean Monnet

#Europe
There is no real peace in Europe, if the states are reconstituted on a basis of national sovereignty. (â€¦) They must have larger markets. Their prosperity is impossible, unless the States of Europe form themselves in a European Federation.
-- Jean Monnet

#Real #Europe #Impossible
There will be no peace in Europe if the States rebuild themselves on the basis of national sovereignty, with its implications of prestige politics and economic protection (...). The countries of Europe are not strong enough individually to be able to guarantee prosperity and social development for their peoples. The States of Europe must therefore form a federation or a European entity that would make them into a common economic unit.
-- Jean Monnet

#Country #Strong #Europe
Men only act in a state of necessity and usually only recognise necessity in a situation of crisis.
-- Jean Monnet

#Men #States #Crisis
Everyone is ambition. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or to do.
-- Jean Monnet

#Business #Ambition #Ambitious
Via money Europe could become political in five years
-- Jean Monnet

#Years #Europe #Political
The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State.
-- Jean Monnet

#Fusion #Economic #States
There is no future for the people of Europe other than in union.
-- Jean Monnet

#Europe #People #Unions
People only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognize necessity when a crisis is upon them.
-- Jean Monnet

#People #Accepting #Accepting Change
Nothing is possible without men; nothing is lasting without institutions.
-- Jean Monnet

#Men #Institutions #Lasting
Building Union among people not cooperation between states
-- Jean Monnet

#People #Unions #Cooperation

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