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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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