Quotes by Bernard-Henri Levy

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 buried, to have a place in the memory of the survivors. And then you have these other places – Darfur, Rwanda, even Colombia – where the dead have no faces and literally cannot be counted. Theirs are minuscule lives moving toward imperceptible deaths. For me, it is the essence of tragedy.

Funeral

Memories

Moving

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

Europe

Lost

Men

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.

Europe

Identity

Sound

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

Order

Principles

Rotten

France is a country where thinking is supposed to be furtive, invisible, almost clandestine. France is a country of cliques and sects.

Country

Invisible

Thinking

God is dead but my hair is perfect.

God Is Dead

Hair

Perfect

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.

Age

Ideas

United States

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

Believe

Philosophy

Warrior

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

Interest

Time And Space

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.

Civilization

Ideas

War

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Civilization

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Country

Europe

Evil

Example

Fighting

Funeral

God Is Dead

Government

Hair

Ideas

Identity

Interest

Invisible

Islamic

Long

Lost

Loyalty

Mean

Memories

Men

Moving

Opportunity

Order

People

Perfect

Philosophy

Political

Principles

Problem

Ridiculous

Rotten

Shameful

Sound

Spiritual

States

Strong

Thinking

Time And Space

Today

Truth Is

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Quotes by Bernard-Henri Levy

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.

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.

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

France is a country where thinking is supposed to be furtive, invisible, almost clandestine. France is a country of cliques and sects.

God is dead but my hair is perfect.

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

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

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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