Oriana Fallaci Quotes
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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
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
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
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
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
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