I don’t really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.
BERNARD-HENRI LEVYFor 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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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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In general, Europeans need to get a wider perspective on the problem of Islamism.
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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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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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The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.
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I would hope that Europe always has a privileged relationship with the United States. The alternatives are not attractive.
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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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The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.
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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.
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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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I really like the United State, its relationship to space and time, its interest in mobility, its cosmopolitanism.
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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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The euro is a great achievement. It’s a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.
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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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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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