“Wake up, folks, wake up! As intimidated as you are by the fear of going against the stream and looking racist (a grossly erroneous word, by the way, because the problem has nothing to do with a race: it has… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't…out of respect for DeGaulle… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
One day you and I will have to have a little talk about this business called love. I still don't understand what it's all about. My guess is that it's just a gigantic hoax, invented to keep people quiet and diverted. Everyone talks about love: the priests, the advertising posters, the literati, and the politicians, those of them who make… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share
Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam. And Italy is an outpost of that province, a stronghold of… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
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… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
“i live on my books. on my writings, i live on my royalties: the percentage an author recieves on each sold copy. and i… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
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… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image