You can be horrified by the state of the prisons, the misery in certain neighborhoods of its cities, or their level of poverty. Anti-Americanism, by which I mean a hatred for America as such-its transformation into a metaphysical category, which incarnates all the evil in the world-is one of fascism's favorite themes. Look at writer and political theorist Charles Maurras in France. The philosopher Martin Heidegger in Germany. The radical Islamists of today!
The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains. - Bernard-Henri Levy
The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.
- Bernard-Henri Levy
Islamic terrorists are new examples of an old problem with fascism. - Bernard-Henri Levy
Islamic terrorists are new examples of an old problem with fascism.
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 mili… - Bernard-Henri Levy
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 mili…
The Left is my family. And it is threatened by terrible demons, like differentialism. "differentialist Left" are people who have learned nothing abou… - 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 abou…
There is a true weakness in American thought today: their incapacity to be interested in the intelligence of evil. - Bernard-Henri Levy
There is a true weakness in American thought today: their incapacity to be interested in the intelligence of evil.
God is dead but my hair is perfect. - Bernard-Henri Levy
God is dead but my hair is perfect.
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
I don't really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.
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 sh… - Bernard-Henri Levy
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 sh…
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 b… - 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. War should always b…
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