Top 91 Oriana Fallaci Quotes
#1. I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.
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#2. I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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#3. America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.
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#4. 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.
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#5. I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.
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#6. There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.
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#7. I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.
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#8. I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.
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#9. I've found what I was looking for, Child: what people call love between a man and a woman is a season. And if, at its flowering, this season is a feast of greenery, at its waning, it's only a heap of rotting leaves.
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#10. You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.
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#11. Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't ... out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because that is how he describes himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.
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#12. 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!
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#14. 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.
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#15. The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
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#16. I live on my books. on my writings, i live on my royalties: the percentage an author recieves on each sold copy. and i am proud of it. i am so even though such percentage is small or i should say irrelevant.
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#17. When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die.
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#18. The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
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#19. Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam. And Italy is an outpost of that province, a stronghold of that colony ... In each of our cities lies a second city: a Muslim city, a city run by the Quran. A stage in the Islamic expansionism.
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#20. 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.
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#21. I'll parade with those who are alone like me. They exist. They are very few, but they exist. I'll find them.
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#23. Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?
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#24. I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.
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#25. 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.
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#26. 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.
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#27. Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?
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#28. What's the point anyway - Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.
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#29. Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?
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#30. To speak of oneself means to lay bare one's own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one's own soul is not at all like taking off one's brassiere on a crowded beach!
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#31. I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!
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#32. I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.
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#34. If you put a pistol against my head and ask which I think is worse, Muslims or Mexicans, I'd have to think a moment, then I'd say the Muslims because they've broken my balls.
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#35. If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he's fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose..
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#36. The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.
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#37. 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.
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#38. The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.
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#39. I love soldiers. They are my kids, they are my children.
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#40. It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.
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#41. 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.
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#43. Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.
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#44. 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.
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#45. No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.
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#46. Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
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#47. The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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#48. With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.
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#49. I must admit that I am not generous with weak people. It's not in my nature or in my personality. My parents were not generous with weak people, see?
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#50. I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work.
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#51. We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.
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#52. Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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#53. I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.
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#54. 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.
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#55. I don't even know if I will be around next year. My cancers are so bad that I think I've arrived at the end of the road. What a pity. I would like to live not only because I love life so much, but because I'd like to see the result of the trial. I do think I will be found guilty.
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#56. Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price.
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#57. Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.
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#60. 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.
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#61. America is God equals America equals Business equals America equals God.
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#62. I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
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#63. Objectivity does not exist. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
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#64. America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.
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#65. I am angry at the Jews for many things ... If you want to take the example of America, how they hold the power, the economical power in so many ways, and the press and the other kind of stuff ... I never realized how it happened and they came to control the media to that point. Why?
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#67. I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
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#68. You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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#69. But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.
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#70. You cannot work and be at home with your child. But you want both.
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#71. I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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#72. It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.
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#73. I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
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#74. Instead of learned young people we have donkeys with University degrees. Instead of future leaders we have mollusks with expensive blue jeans and phony revolutionaries with ski masks. And do you know what? Maybe this is another reason why our Moslem invaders have such an easy game.
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#75. You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.
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#76. Love isn't putting chain on someone who wants to struggle and is ready to die for it, love is letting him die in the way he's chosen.
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#77. 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.
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#80. What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.
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#81. There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth.
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#82. Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living.
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#83. Equality ... like freedom, exists only where you are now. Only as an egg in the womb are we all equal.
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#85. I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.
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#86. Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.
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#87. I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
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#89. A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.
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#90. To be good or bad doesn't count: life out in this world doesn't depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You'll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather.
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#91. 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.
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