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The euro is a great achievement. It’s a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.

Bernard-Henri Levy

In general, Europeans need to get a wider perspective on the problem of Islamism.
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Country Perspective Religious Stop Terrorist Thinking
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
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
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
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
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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Evil Level Mean Neighborhood Political
Even if it doesn’t sound like it at first, that’s an identity that Europe can go out into the world with and take a leading role.
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Country Identity Sound
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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Age Agree Ideas Solve United States
I really like the United State, its relationship to space and time, its interest in mobility, its cosmopolitanism.
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Cosmopolitanism Interest Space Time
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
The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.
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Rebellious Revolution Successful
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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Intellectual Men Schizophrenia
The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.
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Chains States Truth
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 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
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

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