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Oriana Fallaci
Oriana Fallaci
Italian Journalist
Born: Jun 29, 1929
Died: Sep 15, 2006
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Related authors: Ernesto Teodoro Moneta Giovanni Guareschi Giovanni Papini Italo Calvino Loretta Napoleoni Luigi Barzini Renata Adler
The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period. Oriana Fallaci
You Culture Values Give Civilization Period Dead Principles Up Your Moment
Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man? Oriana Fallaci
Man Woman Husband Another Another Man Shoot Unfaithful Loves Poor Who Her Right
Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma. Oriana Fallaci
War Man Courage Humanity Intelligence Beauty Cowardice Nothing Way Foolishness Him Does Reveals Ugliness Enigma Alas
We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' 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
Truth Lie Sometimes Word Hypocrisy Positions Side Our Weakness Must Born Stays Objectivity Only Fact Take Does West Exist Sir Middle So-Called Sustained Cannot Which
When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die. Oriana Fallaci
Life War Me You Trust Living Correspondent All Your Life Born Develop Like Ready Always Been Trust Me Child Die Form War Correspondent Your Wars Fatalism
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. Oriana Fallaci
Abortion Mother Khomeini Would Him Without His Did Where Pity Pregnant Choose
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. Oriana Fallaci
War Failure Believe Others Negotiations Arafat Something David Him Souls Caused Clinton Camp Sends Pompous Poor Who Mediation Incompetent
I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born. Oriana Fallaci
Way Born Miracle Having Only Toward Looked Always Been Oppressive Disobedience Use
I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism. Oriana Fallaci
Nurture Anti-Semitism Find Shameful Students Sponsor Europe Palestinian Nearly Universities
Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is. Oriana Fallaci
Time You Every Arafat Lies Minutes He Him Himself Always Five Ask Even Plays
Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America. Oriana Fallaci
Warrior More End Than America Did Soviet Soviet Union Union Who Even
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
Vote Dignity People Voting Face Closed Own Humiliate Would My Own Spit Had Voted Because Nose Them Themselves Why
Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon. Oriana Fallaci
Power Leader President Despotic Hateful See General Sovereign Whether Elected Inhuman Beloved Phenomenon
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. Oriana Fallaci
Mother Father Torture Had Know House Him Arrested Where Villa Found
This Islam business kidnapped me. Oriana Fallaci
Me Business Islam Kidnapped
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. Oriana Fallaci
World King Leader Met Other Khomeini Puppet Arafat He Like Sort Islamic Islamic World Real Dictators Pope Many
I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time. Oriana Fallaci
Time Israel Exist Themselves Right Second Defend
I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to. Oriana Fallaci
Angry Energy Longer Like Get Really Used
You cannot work and be at home with your child. But you want both. Oriana Fallaci
Work Home You Both Child Want Cannot Your Your Child
Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.' Oriana Fallaci
Time Mother Face First Young Saw TV Laura Laura Bush Voice Dead Because First Time Said Got Mama Oh Frozen Bush Body
I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk. Oriana Fallaci
You Man Met Clark Clark Gable More Never He Talk Make Him Than Shy

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