Quotes by Oriana Fallaci

About Oriana Fallaci:

Oriana Fallaci was an Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer. A partisan during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career. Fallaci became famous worldwide for her coverage of war and revolution, and her interviews with many world leaders during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
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We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.

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I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.

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I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

Oriana Fallaci

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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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

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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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.

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

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

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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!

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

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

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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

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

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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!

Oriana Fallaci

Author Bio

  • NameOriana Fallaci
  • DescriptionItalian writer
  • BornJune 29, 1929
  • DiedSeptember 15, 2006
  • CountryItaly
  • ProfessionWar Correspondent; Politician; Writer; Journalist; Conspiracy Theorist
  • AwardsItalian Order Of Merit For Culture And Art; Ambrogino D'oro