Oriana Fallaci Quotes

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

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

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

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

Moment, Culture, You, Values, Principles

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, Choose, Abortion, Him, Without

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

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, Man, Husband, Poor, Right, Shoot

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, Dictators, He

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, Power, Science

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

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

I Am, Anti-Semitism, Disgusted, Many, Am

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

Past, Survive, You, Know, Cannot

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

Courage, Great, Moral, Test, Conclusion

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

Born, Way, Always, Miracle, Disobedience

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, Trust, War, Child, Me, Die

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, Hypocrisy, Born

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

Police, Risks, Society, Free, Place

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

Woman, Most, Humiliating, Thing

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, Glory, Burden, Bear, Rare, Heavy

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 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, America, Warrior, 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, Dignity, Vote, 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, President, See, I See

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, House, Know, Him, Where

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

Age, End, Without, Century, 20th Century

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

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