Oriana Fallaci Quotes
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I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.
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I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work.
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You cannot work and be at home with your child. But you want both.
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The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
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What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.
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Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?
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I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.
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It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.
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The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.
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I am a danger to myself if I get angry.
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I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!
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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.
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I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.
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I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.
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A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.
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My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth.
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I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
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The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.
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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.
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I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers.
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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.
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Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
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Heroes can be sweet.
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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.