Bernard-Henri Levy

In general, Europeans need to get a wider perspective on the problem of Islamism. Even if the Israel-Palestine question were solved -…

— Bernard-Henri Levy

“There is a gentleness, a lightness, an element of freedom and, in a word, of civilization, that makes this country one of…

— Bernard-Henri Levy

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

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

— Bernard-Henri Levy

I really like the United State, its relationship to space and time, its interest in mobility, its cosmopolitanism.

— Bernard-Henri Levy

Why should an intellectual have to renounce the pleasures of life? I am not a hermit. I am a man of flesh…

— Bernard-Henri Levy

The Left is my family. And it is threatened by terrible demons, like differentialism. "differentialist Left" are people who have learned nothing…

— Bernard-Henri Levy

I work even when I am on vacation. You know that line by Stéphane Mallarmé, "All earthly existence must ultimately be contained…

— Bernard-Henri Levy

America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes -…

— Bernard-Henri Levy

The terrorists exist, and I think we must speak to them, not to establish a dialogue-since for serious terrorists that is unfortunately…

— Bernard-Henri Levy

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

— Bernard-Henri Levy

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

— Bernard-Henri Levy

I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential "clash of civilizations." I am an interventionist, but not a militarist.…

— Bernard-Henri Levy

You can be horrified by the state of the prisons, the misery in certain neighborhoods of its cities, or their level of…

— Bernard-Henri Levy

I am 60, and I am as much an internationalist as when I was younger, when I was a Marxist-Leninist. Internationalism is…

— Bernard-Henri Levy

If you trace the history of Islamist terrorism, you see that its founders were great admirers of European fascism. They read the…

— Bernard-Henri Levy

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

— Bernard-Henri Levy

Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it…

— Bernard-Henri Levy

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

Even if it doesn't sound like it at first, that's an identity that Europe can go out into the world with and…

— Bernard-Henri Levy

The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.

— Bernard-Henri Levy

Each time a Palestinian or an Israeli dies, it is terrible. But they have the right to have a funeral, to be…

— Bernard-Henri Levy

People always think that loyalty is laudable. People are always saying that we must remain faithful to tradition, to family, to our…

— Bernard-Henri Levy

It's true that in France there is always this ridiculous complex about money. Money is cursed, shameful, money disqualifies you . .…

— Bernard-Henri Levy

I don't really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.

— Bernard-Henri Levy