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The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.

Bernard-Henri Levy

I don’t really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.
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Believe Philosophy Warrior
There is a true weakness in American thought today: their incapacity to be interested in the intelligence of evil.
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Evil Today Weakness
I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential “clash of civilizations.” I am an interventionist, but not a militarist. War should always be a last resort.
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Civilization Ideas War
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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Book School Writing
The terrorists exist, and I think we must speak to them, not to establish a dialogue-since for serious terrorists that is unfortunately out of the question – but to learn how their brains work, to be better able to fight them.
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Brain Fighting Thinking
I would sooner want a strong partnership with the United States – even with (US President George W.) Bush, who I think is the worst president in a long, long time. I would sooner want a friendship with Bush than with (Russian President Vladimir) Putin.
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Long Strong Thinking
I am 60, and I am as much an internationalist as when I was younger, when I was a Marxist-Leninist. Internationalism is one of the rare pieces of that heritage to which I remain loyal. That is Barack Obama’s strength.
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International Loyal Politician Rare World
Even Colombia – where the dead have no faces and literally cannot be counted. Theirs are minuscule lives moving toward imperceptible deaths. For me, it is the essence of tragedy.
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Country Dead Essence Imperfectible Moving Tragedy
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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Complex Country Ridiculous Shameful True
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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Country Look Political Radical Today
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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Country Invisible Suppose Thinking
America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it – – not always, but sometimes – for constructive purposes.
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Country Energy Purpose
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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Category Country Evil Fascism Metaphysical Thems Transformation
For me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places.
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Order Principles Rotten
God is dead but my hair is perfect.
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Dead God Hair Perfect
The European Union should not be prescribing an identity. We know what that’s like, when a government tells its people how it should look; what it should be doing. That’s the first step towards totalitarianism.
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Government Identity People

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