Bernard-Henri Levy Quotes

You know, the more you can meet people from different walks of life, the better it is for you. I think the more you can create situations and experiences that give you new perspective, the better.

As an actor, you come in contact with so many different people and cultures. It makes you a more accepting person.

The people with the passports, the people who travel more, tend to be the most understanding. And it's ironic that the people who travel the least have the strongest opinions about the people they've never met.

I can empathise with different cultural expressions and am open to things that seem strange at first sight.

Interreligious dialogue is extremely important for religious people as well as secular people or non-believers. They should participate, and they should be encouraged to have interreligious dialogue, because dialogue is a channel or an instrument to promote intimacy between individual.

I wanted to work with people from the world, with different minds and different visions.

Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level.

I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict.

I love animals, but I don't want to talk to them. I'd rather be able to talk to other people on other continents and understand them.

I say the same thing that I've said for decades now, which is: don't go over to Japan trying to change it, thinking that you know better. Go there trying to understand.

The president in Finland has to understand that there are many different thoughts and opinions and that they must be taken into account so that he could be the president of the whole nation.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.

There is this idea that it's very different from the French point of view to work in America blah, blah, blah. But I think it's different from one person to the other, not from one country to the other.

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

The world is far more interconnected today. Hence the need to understand each other is greater than ever before.

I want England to understand - the rest of the world to understand - what is going on in America. And I want America to understand what is going on in the rest of the world.

One of my greatest times of inspiration is when I'm traveling or living in a new country - there's a tremendous freedom that comes from being unfettered by your own, familiar culture, and by seeing the world from a different point of view.

Believing in each culture's right to be understood by the other party without any form of falseness or distortion is paramount.

Happy the generation where the great listen to the small, for it follows that in such a generation the small will listen to the great.

Travel teaches tolerance.

It's hard to be judgmental once you've been around the world... it's pretty hard to be anything but understanding, and I think it's good for everybody to get out and see someplace other than where you grew up.

We're living with the Arabs; we have to understand them... Through knowing the Arabs, you know yourself better.

I enjoy it; my experiences abroad have taught me the importance of an open mind and have given me a willingness to wander off the beaten path - not only to keep life interesting, but also to understand in a meaningful way that things do not look the same from every vantage point.

I like to learn things from other cultures. I'm curious. It's exciting to be in an unknown world, in a way.