Oriana Fallaci Quotes
Top 63 wise famous quotes and sayings by Oriana Fallaci
Oriana Fallaci Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Oriana Fallaci on Wise Famous Quotes.
I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.
No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.
Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?
The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.
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.
With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.
Equality ... like freedom, exists only where you are now. Only as an egg in the womb are we all equal.
Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?
Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price.
I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am.
Love isn't putting chain on someone who wants to struggle and is ready to die for it, love is letting him die in the way he's chosen.
I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!
The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.
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.
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.
What's the point anyway - Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.
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!
But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.
I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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?
I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.