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This Islam business kidnapped me.

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

Oriana Fallaci

Heroes can be sweet.

Oriana Fallaci

I must admit that I am not generous with weak people. It's not in my nature or in my personality. My parents were not generous with weak people, see?

Oriana Fallaci

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.

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I don't want to hear about my death.

Oriana Fallaci

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

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

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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!

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

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I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

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

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

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

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

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I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers.

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The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.

Oriana Fallaci

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.

Oriana Fallaci

This Islam business kidnapped me.

Oriana Fallaci

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

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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.

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

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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.

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We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

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

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

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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.

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

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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'

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