Oriana Fallaci Quotes - Page 3

I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.

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

We do not understand these Americans who, like adolescents, always speak of sex, and who, like adolescents, all of a sudden have discovered that sex is good not only for procreating children.

Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.

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.

To be good or bad doesn't count: life out in this world doesn't depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You'll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather.

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?

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

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

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

America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.

You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

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.

I don't even know if I will be around next year. My cancers are so bad that I think I've arrived at the end of the road. What a pity. I would like to live not only because I love life so much, but because I'd like to see the result of the trial. I do think I will be found guilty.

If you put a pistol against my head and ask which I think is worse, Muslims or Mexicans, I'd have to think a moment, then I'd say the Muslims because they've broken my balls.

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

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

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

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

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.

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've found what I was looking for, Child: what people call love between a man and a woman is a season. And if, at its flowering, this season is a feast of greenery, at its waning, it's only a heap of rotting leaves.

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

I met Indira Gandhi in her office in the government palace. The same office that had been her father's - large, cold and plain. She was sitting, small and slender, behind a bare desk. When I entered, she got up and came forward to give me her hand, then sat down again and cut the preliminaries short by fixing me with a gaze that meant: Go ahead with the first question, don't waste time, I really have no time to waste.

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.