Public Enemies Quotes

“τι υπάρχει πίσω από αυτή την άρνηση, αυτή τη φοβία, αυτή την απόφαση να λέω όσο το δυνατόν λιγότερα και να μένω χωρίς ομολογία;”
― Michel Houellebecq, Public Enemies: Dueling Writers Take On Each Other and the World

“It’s here that you realize that the unholy collusion between the far-left and radical Islam is not a fantasy dreamed up by Gilles-William Goldnadel, but is something that is increasingly becoming a reality. I leave the accountability of those who find excuses for Islam because it’s the “religion of the poor,” or who look for points of agreement between Marxist thought and Sharia law, but I will say that every anti-Semitic attack or murder in the French banlieues owes something to them.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Public Enemies: Dueling Writers Take On Each Other and the World

“the Internet adds little in comparison to the traditional printed media—in fact, it’s depressing the mediocre use humanity makes of this extraordinary tool.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Public Enemies: Dueling Writers Take On Each Other and the World

“It is really quite frightening, this affectation peculiar to middling-size mammals, interchangeable on the face of it, to form specific species. This is in stark contrast to the attitude of my dog (a middling-size dog—his legs are a little stubby, but he’s middling-size nonetheless), who recognizes dogness in Chihuahuas and Dobermans alike.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Public Enemies: Dueling Writers Take On Each Other and the World

“the pack is weak. Why is it weak? Because it’s afraid—see above. But also because it’s driven more than anything else by fear, mockery, resentment, hatred, bitterness, spite, anger, cruelty, derision, scorn, all of which Spinoza called the negative emotions and which, as he definitively established, make you weak, not strong, are a sign of impotence, not power, which diminish the ego and reduce its capacity to act, indeed profoundly debilitate it, making it unworthy and unintelligently aggressive.”
― Bernard-Henri Lévy, Public Enemies: Dueling Writers Take On Each Other and the World