Quotes by 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

Wisdom

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.

— Oriana Fallaci

Wisdom

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.

— Oriana Fallaci

Courage

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

Wisdom

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.

— Oriana Fallaci

Truth

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.

— Oriana Fallaci

Life

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

Wisdom

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

— Oriana Fallaci

Courage

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

— Oriana Fallaci

Wisdom

I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.

— Oriana Fallaci

Wisdom

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.

— Oriana Fallaci

Life

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

— Oriana Fallaci

Wisdom

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

— Oriana Fallaci

Wisdom

I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

— Oriana Fallaci

Wisdom

Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.

— Oriana Fallaci

Wisdom

Heroes can be sweet.

— Oriana Fallaci

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth.

— Oriana Fallaci

Truth

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

— Oriana Fallaci

Wisdom

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

— Oriana Fallaci

Wisdom

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

Truth

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.

— Oriana Fallaci

Wisdom

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.

— Oriana Fallaci

Life

When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die.

— Oriana Fallaci

Life