Oriana Fallaci

A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.

I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work.

I love soldiers. They are my kids, they are my children.

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?

I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.

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.

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.

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

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

Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.

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

Heroes can be sweet.

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 am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!

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

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

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

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

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

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