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.
BERNARD-HENRI LEVYI don’t really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.
More Bernard-Henri Levy Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I really like the United State, its relationship to space and time, its interest in mobility, its cosmopolitanism.
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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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The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.
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In general, Europeans need to get a wider perspective on the problem of Islamism.
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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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A politician has finally understood that politics is not only about the closing of a mine in Ohio-it is also about the will to reach out, to embrace the world of today’s young Americans. That way, young Americans may eventually reconcile with politics.
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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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