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… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
People always think that loyalty is laudable. People are always saying that we must remain faithful to tradition, to family, to our class, to our ideas. Of course not! That would be equivalent to zero brain activity. If you really… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
In general, Europeans need to get a wider perspective on the problem of Islamism. Even if the Israel-Palestine question were solved - and I… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
“There is a gentleness, a lightness, an element of freedom and, in a word, of civilization, that makes this country one of the few… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I would hope that Europe always has a privileged relationship with the United States. The alternatives are not attractive. — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
I really like the United State, its relationship to space and time, its interest in mobility, its cosmopolitanism. — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
Why should an intellectual have to renounce the pleasures of life? I am not a hermit. I am a man of flesh and blood.… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
The Left is my family. And it is threatened by terrible demons, like differentialism. "differentialist Left" are people who have learned nothing about tolerance.… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
I work even when I am on vacation. You know that line by Stéphane Mallarmé, "All earthly existence must ultimately be contained in a… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes - for constructive… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
The terrorists exist, and I think we must speak to them, not to establish a dialogue-since for serious terrorists that is unfortunately out of… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
Islamic terrorists are new examples of an old problem with fascism. — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
The conservatives want to revolutionize the world all at once. And that's a dangerous proposal. — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
