Oriana Fallaci Quotes

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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.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Giving Up, Civilization, Dying

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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.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Civilization, Trying, Principles

  "A Sermon for the West". Address to an audience at the American Enterprise Institute, October 22, 2002.

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

  Oriana Fallaci

  Views, Perspective, Three

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• There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Challenges, Faults, Moral

  Oriana Fallaci (2002). “The Rage and the Pride”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• And yet, or just for this reason, it's so fascinating to be a woman. It's an adventure that takes such courage, a challenge that's never boring. You'll have so many things to engage you if you're born a woman. To begin with, you'll have to struggle to maintain that if God exists he might even be an old woman with white hair or a beautiful girl. Then you'll have to struggle to explain that it wasn't sin that was born on the day when Eve picked an apple, what was born that day was a splendid virtue called disobedience.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Beautiful, Girl, Struggle

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• Instead of learned young people we have donkeys with University degrees. Instead of future leaders we have mollusks with expensive blue jeans and phony revolutionaries with ski masks. And do you know what? Maybe this is another reason why our Moslem invaders have such an easy game.

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  Blue, University Degrees, Games

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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.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Islamic, Europe, Doe

  "Prophet of Decline" by Tunku Varadarajan, www.wsj.com. June 23, 2005.

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

  Oriana Fallaci

  States

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• No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Winning, Escaping, Law

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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.

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  Country, Years, Europe

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• If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he's fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose.

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  Fighting, Men, Sheep

  Oriana Fallaci (1980). “A man”, Simon & Schuster

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• Love isn’t putting chain on someone who wants to struggle and is ready to die for it, love is letting him die in the way he’s chosen.

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  Struggle, Love Is, Want

  Oriana Fallaci (1980). “A man”, Simon & Schuster

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

  Oriana Fallaci

  Loss, Europe, Islam

  "A Sermon for the West". Oriana Fallaci's address to an audience at the American Enterprise Institute, October 22, 2002.

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

  Oriana Fallaci

  "The Agitator" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 5, 2006.

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• 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

  People, Voting, Faces

  "The Agitator" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 5, 2006.

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

  Oriana Fallaci

  Israel

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• Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam. And Italy is an outpost of that province, a stronghold of that colony... In each of our cities lies a second city: a Muslim city, a city run by the Quran. A stage in the Islamic expansionism.

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  Running, Lying, Islamic

  "La forza della ragione (The Force of Reason)". Book by Oriana Fallaci (p. 34), 2004.

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

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  Parades, Like Me

  Oriana Fallaci (1980). “A man”, Simon & Schuster

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• I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Introducing, Deny, Should

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

  Oriana Fallaci

  Europe, Students, Sponsors

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• Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a hundred feelings of inadequacy. Not by chance, when I find myself going through an event or an important encounter, does it seize me like anguish, a fear of not having enough eyes and enough ears and enough brains to look and listen and understand like a worm hidden in the wood of history.

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  Eye, Feelings, Brain

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

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  Leader, Age, Century

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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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  Miracle, Use, Way

  "Intervista con la storia (Interview with History)". Book by Oriana Fallaci (Preface), 1976.

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• It brought back to mind the injustice I spoke of, the solitude that oppresses women intent on defending their own destinies, their own dreams, their own mistakes.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Dream, Mistake, Destiny

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• 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.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Lying, Objectivity, Hypocrisy

  "The Rage of Oriana Fallaci". Interview with George Gurley, observer.com. January 27, 2003.

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