Jean-Marie Le Pen quotes

Jean-Marie Le Pen is a French politician and founder of the National Front party. Known for his nationalist and controversial views, he played a significant role in shaping far-right politics in France. He has been a central figure in French politics for several decades and remains influential in public debate. Here are 34 of his quotes:

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War. ... If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what's called a detail.

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There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.

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Everyone sees drama from his own perspective.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.

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After all, you're not exactly a nation like all the other nations. You are unique, if only because you are such an ancient people, and because of the way you are spread all over the world and your obvious success in many fields.

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France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.

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Im always suspicious of people who repent of other peoples sins.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.

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There wasn't anti-Semitism in France.

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There is an Islamic population in France, most of which comes from the North African countries.

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The sidaïques, by breathing the virus through all their pores, put into question the equilibrium of the nation... The sidaïque is contagious by his sweat, his saliva, his contact. It's a kind of leper.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

When Joan D' Arc was asked by her judges why as a Christian she did not love the British, she answered that she did love them, but she loved British in their country. In the same way, we do not hate the Turks, we love them, but in their country.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism.

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The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

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Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.

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Everyone sees drama from his own perspective. My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks. The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims. For some the most terrible aspect of it was the deportations, while for others it was the leveling bombings or the mass deaths by starvation and cold.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided.

Jean-Marie Le Pen