Oriana Fallaci Quotes

Italian - Journalist June 29, 1929 - September 15, 2006

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

Culture, Moment, You, Values, Dead, Up

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. Oriana Fallaci

Dog, Strength, Power, Story, America

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. Oriana Fallaci

Beauty, Courage, War, Man, Intelligence

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

Man, Woman, Husband, Poor, Right, Shoot

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

Freedom, Loss, Presence, Europe, Italy

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. Oriana Fallaci

Mother, Abortion, Choose, Him, Where

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. Oriana Fallaci

Leader, King, World, Real, Like, Sort

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

Life, Freedom, Struggle, Religion, I Am

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. Oriana Fallaci

Life, War, Trust, Me, Child, Born

I am a danger to myself if I get angry. Oriana Fallaci

Myself, Angry, I Am, Anger, Danger, Get

We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot 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. Oriana Fallaci

Truth, Lie, Weakness, Born, Hypocrisy

I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers. Oriana Fallaci

War, People, World, Suicide, Enemy, Go

The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette. Oriana Fallaci

Woman, Most, Humiliating, Thing

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. Oriana Fallaci

Strength, Technology, Science, Power

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

War, Thought, You, Everyone, Patient

You cannot survive if you do not know the past. Oriana Fallaci

Past, Survive, You, Know, Cannot

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

You, Cannot, Govern

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

End, Warrior, America, More, Soviet, Who

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. Oriana Fallaci

People, Face, Voting, Vote, Dignity, Why

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. Oriana Fallaci

Leader, Power, See, I See, President

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. Oriana Fallaci

Father, Mother, Know, House, Him, Where

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

Age, End, Without, 20th Century, Leaders

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. Oriana Fallaci

Failure, War, Believe, Poor, Others, Him

This Islam business kidnapped me. Oriana Fallaci

Business, Me, Islam, Kidnapped

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. Oriana Fallaci

Culture, Values, Duty, Try, Principles

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

Girl, Fighting, Against, Little

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