It's true that in France there is always this ridiculous complex about money. Money is cursed, shameful, money … - Bernard-Henri Levy

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Bernard-Henri Levy

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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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

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France is a country where thinking is supposed to be furtive, invisible, almost clandestine. France is a country of cliques and sects.

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