Bernard Henri Levy Quotes

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

Bernard-Henri Levy

#2. Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything.

Boleslaw Prus

#3. America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes - for constructive purposes.

Bernard-Henri Levy

#4. Islamic terrorists are new examples of an old problem with fascism.

Bernard-Henri Levy

#5. For me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places.

Bernard-Henri Levy

#6. 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.

Bernard-Henri Levy

#7. It doesn't pay to ignore warnings. Even when they don't make sense.

Debra Doyle

#8. May we two stand,
When we are dead, beyond the setting suns,
A little from other shades apart,
With mingling hair, and play upon one lute.

William Butler Yeats

#9. A Christianity that does not have as its primary focus the deepening of passions for God is a false Christianity, no matter how zealously it seeks conversions or how forcefully it advocates righteous behavior.

J.D. Greear

#10. The purpose of guilt is to bring us to the Lord, after that it has no purpose.

Mother Teresa

#11. He'll probably pick you up in a limo filled with fucking roses. I hope he sits on a thorn. - Dylan Mead

H.R. Willaston

#12. 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.

Bernard-Henri Levy

#13. I do have a built-in advantage,' said Giles. 'I am my father's son.

Jeffrey Archer

#14. 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.

Bernard-Henri Levy

#15. 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.

Bernard-Henri Levy

#16. 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.

Bernard-Henri Levy

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

Bernard-Henri Levy

#18. Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.

Tommy Lasorda

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

Bernard-Henri Levy

#20. When I see a dancing butterfly,
When I see a half blooming flower,
Their eager wish to make this world happy,
My mind dances with joy,
My soul emerges in happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#21. 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 Levy

#22. 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.

Bernard-Henri Levy

#23. For the capable, everywhere and everything is a road!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#24. In Marrakech, Arabian open-heartedness is served up with a generous dose of pan-African mysticism, a dollop of French savoir-vivre, and a garnish of Moorish grace. The vibe is irresistible to meaning-of-life seekers and international hipsters looking for a scene.

Vivian Swift

#25. It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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

Bernard-Henri Levy

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

Bernard-Henri Levy

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

Bernard-Henri Levy

#29. 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.

Bernard-Henri Levy

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

Bernard-Henri Levy

#31. It's the girls' toilets!' Harry gasped.

J.K. Rowling