Oriana Fallaci Quotes (39 Quotes)

When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.

We do not understand these Americans who, like adolescents, always speak of sex, and who, like adolescents, all of a sudden have discovered that sex is good not only for procreating children.

To have realized your dream makes you feel lost.

How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!

I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.

You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.

This Islam business kidnapped me.

I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

Heroes can be sweet.

I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I It took me a whole life to build myself as I am.

I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.

I don't want to hear about my death.

Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense.

I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.

Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.

Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.

The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.

Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.

I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.

I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.

The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.

You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.

I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium that rare weakness we call imagination.

Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face.

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.