Quotes By Oriana Fallaci

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.

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

This Islam business kidnapped me.

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

You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I don't want to hear about my death.

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.

Heroes can be sweet.

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

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 am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

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.