Oriana Fallaci Quotes - Page 4

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

Besides the things I asked [Indira Gandhi], she told me about her son Rajiv, who is married to an Italian girl and is a pilot for Air India, then of her younger son Sanjay, who is an automobile designer and still a bachelor.

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Indira Gandhi] answered cautiously at first. Then she opened up like a flower and the conversation flowed along without obstacles, in mutual sympathy.

Sometimes I ask myself whether [Indira Gandhi] had, even then, a certain contempt for the system she represented and, years later, would overthrow.

Finally [Indira Ganhi] called a beautiful dark little boy who was playing on the lawn, and embracing him tenderly, murmured, 'This is my grandchild; this is the man I love most in the world.' It was a strange sensation to watch this very powerful woman embracing a child.

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.

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.

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.