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

Oriana Fallaci Quotes

Italian - Journalist Born: July 24, 1929

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

Hollywood, Wealth, Certainly

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. Oriana Fallaci

Colony, Islamic, Proceed

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

Test, Physical Courage, Also

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

I Am, Freedom Of Religion

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

I Am, Italians, Disgusted

It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man. Oriana Fallaci

King, Must, Terribly

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

Civilization, Give, Period

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

Woman, Loves, Another Man

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

Lie, Sometimes, Fact

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

Abortion, Pity, Khomeini

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

Souls, Incompetent, Caused

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

Myself, Anger, I Am

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, Nothing, Enigma

It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces. Oriana Fallaci

Life, Faces, Many

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

Art, Poison, Heavy Burden

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

Thought, Everyone, Ever

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

Past, Survive, Cannot

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

You, Cannot, Govern

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, I See, Phenomenon

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

Find, Sponsor, Universities

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

Want, Capable, Wanted

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple! Oriana Fallaci

Think, Pope, Same Things

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

Arrival, Commit, Considered

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. Oriana Fallaci

Country, Germany, Other

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

Strength, Wealth, Usual

I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of. Oriana Fallaci

I Am, Sure, The Only Thing

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