Oriana Fallaci's Quotes

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

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

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

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

In my old age, I have been thinking about this, and I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage.

Physical courage is a great test.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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