The terrorists exist, and I think we must speak to them, not to establish a dialogue-since for serious … - Bernard-Henri Levy

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

. . . you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!

Bernard-Henri Levy

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.

Brain, Exist, Fighting, Question, Serious, Thinking

Same Author Quotes

In general, Europeans need to get a wider perspective on the problem of Islamism. Even if the Israel-Palestine question were solved - and I think and hope that one day soon it will be - this wouldn't stop one person from becoming a terrorist.

Becoming, Israel, Person, Perspective, Question, Thinking

It's true that in France there is always this ridiculous complex about money. Money is cursed, shameful, money disqualifies you. . . In America, even though it is a Protestant country, it's the opposite.

Country, Ridiculous, Shameful, Protestant, Though

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!

Certain, Cities, Evil, Hatred, Mean, Writer

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.

Believe, People, Justice, Republic, Opinion, Recently

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

Interest, Time And Space, Like, Time, Space

Similar Quotes

Henry Spira

Their suffering is intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned. And the victims are unable to organize in defence of their own interests.

Intense, Interests, Sanctioned, Suffering, Systematic

Tessa Jowell

Our language and literature are without a doubt Britain's greatest contribution to the cultural heritage of the world.

Contribution, Cultural, Doubt, Heritage, Literature, World

Madeleine Albright

I do think that one needs to have respect for people who are older. And I really do love the idea that one can respect generations.

Ideas, Needs, Older, People, Thinking

J. K. Rowling

. . . you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!

Basis, Believe, Claim, Real, Silly

Mira Gonzalez

Sometimes I will tweet things without an audience in mind at all, just because I want to say something that I don't feel I can say otherwise. Those tweets have a specific sense of desperation to them, because I write them when I feel like I don't have anyone else to talk to - as if Twitter is the only thing that will accept my insanely inappropriate thoughts without judgement.

Accept, Audience, Judgement, Mind, Tweet, Writing