“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 should be doing. That's the first step towards totalitarianism.” PeopleKnowsShouldFirstsLooksGovernmentStepsIdentityUnionsFirst StepsTotalitarianismEuropean UnionPrescribing Author: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 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.” PeopleIfsFacesTeachSpeechLettersSuicideTerrorismFascismFoundersBombingAdmirerIslamists Author:Bernard-Henri Levy
“When you believe in what you are doing, when you are seeking justice for the killing of Daniel Pearl, when you want to alert public opinion to the plight of the massacred people of Darfur, or in the recently martyred former Soviet republic Georgia, it makes more sense to use the media than to work in silence.” PeopleBelieveJusticeSilenceOpinionKillingSoviet Author: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 class, to our ideas. Of course not! That would be equivalent to zero brain activity. If you really want to think, to seek truth, to advance intellectually, you must turn your back on clichés, on preconceived ideas - even those belonging to your spiritual family. For an intellectual, his true duty is not to fidelity, but to infidelity.” PeopleThinkingSpiritualBrainDutyIntellectualTraditionLoyaltyFaithfulBelongingInfidelityFidelity Author: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 about tolerance. Or justice. People who, hiding behind a backward sense of tolerance and justice, explain to us that we must accept all the actions of all civilizations, including the stoning of adulterous wives or the mutilation of little girls.” PeopleActionGirlJusticeAcceptingWifeTerribleMy FamilyToleranceDemonHiding Author:Bernard-Henri Levy
