Jean Monnet Quotes

#1. Yes, Jean Monnet was the father of the concept of a United States of Europe and his efforts more than those of any other single man helped change the thinking of European leaders.

Paul Hoffman

#2. Corporatists like Robert Schuman and Jean Monnet were bent on constructing the Brussels-based bureaucracy as a democracy-free zone.

Yanis Varoufakis

#3. Via money Europe could become political in five years

Jean Monnet

#4. Everyone is ambition. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or to do.

Jean Monnet

#5. Men and women are what they make of themselves.

Seth Adam Smith

#6. 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.

Jean Monnet

#7. Make men work together show them that beyond their differences and geographical boundaries there lies a common interest.

Jean Monnet

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

Jean Monnet

#9. People only accept change in necessity and see necessity only in crisis.

Jean Monnet

#10. The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State.

Jean Monnet

#11. There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable.

Benoit Mandelbrot

#12. The great thing about making cognac is that it teaches you above everything else to wait-man proposes, but time and God and the seasons have got to be on your side.

Jean Monnet

#13. People only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognize necessity when a crisis is upon them.

Jean Monnet

#14. Premature ideas do not exist, one must bide one's time until the right moment comes along.

Jean Monnet

#15. Nothing important is done in the United States without lawyers.

Jean Monnet

#16. Europe'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

#17. Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do.

Jean Monnet

#18. You must always remember this. When hardships come, don't automatically ask God to deliver you from them. Perhaps it would be wiser to ask: What do I have to learn before I am delivered from this problem?

Harold Klemp

#19. Europe has never existed. One must genuinely create Europe.

Jean Monnet

#20. To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless.

Jean Monnet

#21. Nothing is possible without men, but nothing lasts without institutions.

Jean Monnet

#22. Nothing is possible without men; nothing is lasting without institutions.

Jean Monnet

#23. She said interruptions were simply God's appointments.

Debbie Macomber

#24. People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.

Barry Lopez

#25. As for family values, they are whatever they are - some families are tight, others are blown away like dandelion puffs. A main value in Minnesota is still: don't waste my time, don't B.S. me, I wasn't born yesterday.

Garrison Keillor

#26. There is no future for the people of Europe other than in union.

Jean Monnet

#27. The essence of the expert is that his field shall be very special and narrow: one of the ways in which he inspires confidence is to rigidly limit himself to the little toe; he would scarcely venture an off-the-record opinion on an infected little finger.

Louis Kronenberger

#28. There is too much emphasis on being positive, to the detriment of being real.

Colleen Chen

#29. Building Union among people not cooperation between states

Jean Monnet

#30. Men only act in a state of necessity and usually only recognise necessity in a situation of crisis.

Jean Monnet