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

Oriana Fallaci Quotes

Italian - Journalist Born: July 24, 1929

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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

Islam, Sense, Mental

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

Woman, Most, Humiliating

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

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

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

Society, Free, Police

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

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, World, King

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

Freedom, Loss, Italy

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

Man, Lonely, King

A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion. Oriana Fallaci

Culture, Passion, Survive

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, Principles

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

Girl, Fighting, Against

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

I Am, Anti-Semitism, Many

Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is. Oriana Fallaci

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

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, Suicide, World

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

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

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

War, Thought, You

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

Past, Know, You

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

America, Warrior, End

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

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, Voting, Vote

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

Age, End, 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

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