Oriana Fallaci Quotes

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

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

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

I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.

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

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

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.

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

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

You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

This Islam business kidnapped me.

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.

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

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.

I don't want to hear about my death.

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

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

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

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

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.