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  • Journalist
  • 1930 - 2006
  • 112 quotes

Oriana Fallaci, a journalist (1930 - 2006), is quoted 112 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Men, America, Islam and Angry.

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Heroes can be sweet.

This Islam business kidnapped me.

Physical courage is a great test.

I don't want to hear about my death.

I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth.

Journalism combines adventure with culture.

I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.

You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

To have realized your dream makes you feel lost.

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

I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.

The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.

I love soldiers. They are my kids, they are my children.

It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.

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

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.

You cannot work and be at home with your child. But you want both.

It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.

America is God equals America equals Business equals America equals God.

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

There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth.

America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.

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

Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living.

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

You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.

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

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

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

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

A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.

I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.

I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work.

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.

Equality ... like freedom, exists only where you are now. Only as an egg in the womb are we all equal.

Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?

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

I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.

With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.

I’ll parade with those who are alone like me. They exist. They are very few, but they exist. I’ll find them.

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

But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.

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

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!

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

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

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