Oriana Fallaci Quotes
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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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.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
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I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.
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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.
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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.'
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Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.
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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.
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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.
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To speak of oneself means to lay bare one's own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one's own soul is not at all like taking off one's brassiere on a crowded beach!
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I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
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We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.