Author Profile
Oriana Fallaci
1929 – 2006 • Italian • Journalist
57
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 57 quotesA civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.— Oriana Fallaci
I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work.— 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
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.— Oriana Fallaci
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
I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.— Oriana Fallaci
I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.— Oriana Fallaci
Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.— Oriana Fallaci
Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.— Oriana Fallaci
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!— Oriana Fallaci
I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!— Oriana Fallaci
I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.— Oriana Fallaci
I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.— Oriana Fallaci