Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.

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!

The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.

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

Europe has certainly lost confidence in itself. This was something that, when I was a young man, we never imagined would happen.

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.

I don't really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.