Bernard-Henri Levy Quotes
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The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.
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America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes - for constructive purposes.
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Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.
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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 the question - but to learn how their brains work, to be better able to fight them.
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I am 60, and I am as much an internationalist as when I was younger, when I was a Marxist-Leninist. Internationalism is one of the rare pieces of that heritage to which I remain loyal. That is Barack Obama's strength. A politician has finally understood that politics is not only about the closing of a mine in Ohio-it is also about the will to reach out, to embrace the world of today's young Americans. That way, young Americans may eventually reconcile with politics.
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Islamic terrorists are new examples of an old problem with fascism.
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Europe has certainly lost confidence in itself. This was something that, when I was a young man, we never imagined would happen.
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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 militarily.
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If you trace the history of Islamist terrorism, you see that its founders were great admirers of European fascism. They read the texts of European fascism, they quoted them in speeches and letters. This is not from the Koran - the Koran doesn't teach you how to repress people; there's nothing in there about women having to cover their faces, there's certainly nothing about suicide bombing.