Each time a Palestinian or an Israeli dies, it is terrible. But they have the right to have a funeral, to be buried, to have a place in the memory of the survivors. And then you have these other places – Darfur, Rwanda.
BERNARD-HENRI LEVYFor me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places.
More Bernard-Henri Levy Quotes
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I definitely don’t agree with that sort of rhetoric from the United States – this idea that all the major conflicts of our age need to be solved militarily.
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In general, Europeans need to get a wider perspective on the problem of Islamism.
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It’s true that in France there is always this ridiculous complex about money. Money is cursed, shameful, money disqualifies you . . . In America, even though it is a Protestant country, it’s the opposite.
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Why should an intellectual have to renounce the pleasures of life? I am not a hermit. I am a man of flesh and blood. In fact, if you look at my name in French, that schizophrenia, that aspiration to several lives is contained in my name. Lévy is also les vies – “the lives”.
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The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.
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Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history – we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.
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Even if the Israel-Palestine question were solved – and I think and hope that one day soon it will be – this wouldn’t stop one person from becoming a terrorist.
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You can be horrified by the state of the prisons, the misery in certain neighborhoods of its cities, or their level of poverty.
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The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.
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Look at writer and political theorist Charles Maurras in France. The philosopher Martin Heidegger in Germany. The radical Islamists of today!
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God is dead but my hair is perfect.
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There is a true weakness in American thought today: their incapacity to be interested in the intelligence of evil.
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France is a country where thinking is supposed to be furtive, invisible, almost clandestine. France is a country of cliques and sects.
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Anti-Americanism, by which I mean a hatred for America as such-its transformation into a metaphysical category, which incarnates all the evil in the world-is one of fascism’s favorite themes.
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The euro is a great achievement. It’s a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.
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