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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The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.

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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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i live on my books. on my writings, i live on my royalties: the percentage an author recieves on each sold copy. and i am proud of it. i am so even though such percentage is small or i should say irrelevant.

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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: Somet...

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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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My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth.

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

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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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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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This Islam business kidnapped me.

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

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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