Oriana Fallaci Quotes

 The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.

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.

This Islam business kidnapped me.

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.

The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.

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.

Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

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

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

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

I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.