Bernard-Henri Levy Quotes
For me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places.
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.
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.
Europe has certainly lost confidence in itself. This was something that, when I was a young man, we never imagined would happen.
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.
I don't really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.
I would hope that Europe always has a privileged relationship with the United States. The alternatives are not attractive.
The conservatives want to revolutionize the world all at once. And that's a dangerous proposal.
America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes - for constructive purposes.
The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.
There is a true weakness in American thought today: their incapacity to be interested in the intelligence of evil.
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.
France is a country where thinking is supposed to be furtive, invisible, almost clandestine. France is a country of cliques and sects.
I really like the United State, its relationship to space and time, its interest in mobility, its cosmopolitanism.