Quotes By Oriana Fallaci

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.

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

I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.

This Islam business kidnapped me.

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

Physical courage is a great test.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.