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Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.
Strangely, it is always America that is described as degenerate and 'fascist', while it is solely in Europe that actual dictatorships and totalitarian regimes spring up.
Europe's Anti-American Obsession (2003)
Democratic civilization is the first in history to blame itself because another power is working to destroy it.
How Democracies Perish (1983)
The strange thing is that it's always in Europe that dictatorships and totalitarian regimes spring up, yet it's always America that is "fascist".
Anti-Americanism (2003)
Anti-Americanism thus defined is less a popular prejudice than a parti pris of the political, cultural and religious elites.
Anti-Americanism (2003)
In Europe, anti-Americanism is much more a hobgoblin of the political, cultural, and religious elites.
Europe's Anti-American Obsession (2003)
Europeans firmly believe these sorts of caricatures--because they are repeated every day by the elites.
Europe's Anti-American Obsession (2003)
The United States is the only country where these revolutions are simultaneously in progress and organically linked in such a way as to constitute a single revolution.
Without Marx or Jesus; the new American Revolution has begun (1971)
It is clear that international law must evolve, even if it will be difficult to find the new and appropriate notions that will allow it to … However, it is unlikely that we will ever be capable of building a world that is qualitatively better than we ourselves are.
Democracy Against Itself: The Future of the Democratic Impulse (1993)
Today in America—the child of European imperialism—a new revolution is rising. It is the revolution of our time... and offers the only possible escape for mankind today.
Without Marx or Jesus; the new American Revolution has begun (1971)
Not just songs by Madonna and action films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger; it includes 1,700 symphony orchestras, opera attended by 7.5 million people every year, and museums that are visited by 500 million annually, almost all American museums, where entrance is quite often free, owe their existence and funding to private sponsors.
Anti-Americanism (2003)
The idea that a culture can preserve its originality by barricading itself against foreign influences is an old illusion that has always produced the opposite of the desired result. Isolation breeds sterility. It is the free circulation of cultural products and talents that allows each society to perpetuate and renew itself.
Anti-Americanism (2003)
The principal function of anti-Americanism has always been, and still is, to discredit liberalism by discrediting its supreme incarnation. To travesty the United States as a repressive, unjust, racist—almost fascist—society was a way of proclaiming: look what happens when liberalism is implemented!
Anti-Americanism (2003)