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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!

Bernard-Henri Levy's Popular Quotes

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

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God is dead but my hair is perfect.

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

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There is a true weakness in American thought today: their incapacity to be interested in the intelligence of evil.

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

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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…

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

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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…

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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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