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

Strength, Technology, Science, Power

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

Man, Want, Capable, Wanted, Tyrant

Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.' Oriana Fallaci

Mother, Time, Face, Voice, Body, Young

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

Find, Students, Nurture, Europe, Sponsor

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, Mental, Only, Sense, Europe

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

Past, Know, You, Survive, Cannot

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

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, Her

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

I Am, Anti-Semitism, Italians, Am, 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, Burden, Glory, Bear, Poison, Rare

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

Life, Courage, Faces, Many

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, Man, War, Intelligence

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, Miracle, Always, Only, Been

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

Passion, Culture, Civilization, Survive

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

Man, King, Lonely, Must, Instead

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

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

War, Thought, You, Patient, Everyone

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, End, Warrior, More, Who, Union

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, Without, Him

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

Voting, Vote, People, Face, Dignity, Own

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, President, I See

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

Age, End, Without, Leaders, 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, Others, Poor, Him

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