Words matter. These are the best Oriana Fallaci Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.
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.
My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth.
I cry, sometimes, because I’m not 20 years younger, and I’m not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.
I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.
The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn’t make him talk.
I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
I don’t want to hear about my death.
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.
The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.
I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It’s that simple!
I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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.
I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.
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.
A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.
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.
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.
How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It’s like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!
Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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.’
We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.
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.
I don’t hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work.
You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
I am a danger to myself if I get angry.
I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
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.
I must admit that I am not generous with weak people. It’s not in my nature or in my personality. My parents were not generous with weak people, see?
