Bernard-Henri Levy Quotes

#1. God is dead but my hair is perfect.

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#2. The conservatives want to revolutionize the world all at once. And that's a dangerous proposal.

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#3. 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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#4. The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.

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#5. The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.

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#6. Europe has certainly lost confidence in itself. This was something that, when I was a young man, we never imagined would happen.

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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.

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#10. I would hope that Europe always has a privileged relationship with the United States. The alternatives are not attractive.

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#11. In general, Europeans need to get a wider perspective on the problem of Islamism. 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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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. There is a gentleness, a lightness, an element of freedom and, in a word, of civilization, that makes this country one of the few countries in the world where, despite everything, you can still breathe freely.

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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. Islamic terrorists are new examples of an old problem with fascism.

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#18. 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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