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.
He look'd in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
It is hard to know when we have done enough for the Atonement to change our natures and so qualify us for eternal life. And we don't know how many days we will have to give the service necessary for that mighty change to come. But we know that we will have days enough if only we don't waste them.
It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'T is the divinity that stirs within us; 'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!
God doesn't dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.
To escape the cycle of tragedy, we (searchers) have to be tough on the ideas of the planners, even while we salute their goodwill.
Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition β and perchance to some excess β I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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