Quotes by Oriana Fallaci

• I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.
• I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.
• I am a danger to myself if I get angry.
• 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!
• Heroes can be sweet.
• Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?
• Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
• Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.
• I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
• I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
• I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.
• I don't want to hear about my death.
• You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
• I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
• I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
• 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.
• 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.
• I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.
• You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
• 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.
• Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.
• 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.
• The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.