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You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else. — Oriana Fallaci

I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time. — Oriana Fallaci

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. — Oriana Fallaci

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

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

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

I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language. — Oriana Fallaci

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

With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination. — Oriana Fallaci

Equality ... like freedom, exists only where you are now. Only as an egg in the womb are we all equal. — Oriana Fallaci

America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates. — Oriana Fallaci

To have realized your dream makes you feel lost. — Oriana Fallaci

Journalism combines adventure with culture. — Oriana Fallaci

Physical courage is a great test. — Oriana Fallaci

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? — Oriana Fallaci

I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger. — Oriana Fallaci

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

Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living. — Oriana Fallaci

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

I love soldiers. They are my kids, they are my children. — Oriana Fallaci

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. — Oriana Fallaci

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

I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work. — Oriana Fallaci

This Islam business kidnapped me. — Oriana Fallaci

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

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born. — Oriana Fallaci

the world changes and remains the same. — Oriana Fallaci

Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America. — Oriana Fallaci

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test. — Oriana Fallaci

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare. — Oriana Fallaci

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. — Oriana Fallaci

America is God equals America equals Business equals America equals God. — Oriana Fallaci

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. — Oriana Fallaci

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple! — Oriana Fallaci

The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism. — Oriana Fallaci

I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all. — Oriana Fallaci

I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to. — Oriana Fallaci

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

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

You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus. — Oriana Fallaci

I leave shreds of my soul on every experience. — Oriana Fallaci

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

You cannot work and be at home with your child. But you want both. — Oriana Fallaci

I don't want to hear about my death. — Oriana Fallaci

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. — Oriana Fallaci

I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of. — Oriana Fallaci

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. — Oriana Fallaci

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

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! — Oriana Fallaci

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

But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born. — Oriana Fallaci

There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth. — Oriana Fallaci

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

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion. — Oriana Fallaci

Heroes can be sweet. — Oriana Fallaci

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period. — Oriana Fallaci

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? — Oriana Fallaci

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

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

My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth. — Oriana Fallaci

I'll parade with those who are alone like me. They exist. They are very few, but they exist. I'll find them. — Oriana Fallaci

I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk. — Oriana Fallaci

I am a danger to myself if I get angry. — Oriana Fallaci