Oriana Fallaci

Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't....out of respect…

— Oriana Fallaci

One day you and I will have to have a little talk about this business called love. I still don't understand what…

— Oriana Fallaci

Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam. And Italy is an outpost of that province, a…

— Oriana Fallaci

Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a…

— 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 live on my books. on my writings, i live on my royalties: the percentage an author recieves on each sold copy.…

— Oriana Fallaci

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power…

— 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?…

— Oriana Fallaci

Physical courage is a great test.

— Oriana Fallaci

If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads…

— Oriana Fallaci

There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a…

— Oriana Fallaci

Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was…

— Oriana Fallaci

Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time…

— Oriana Fallaci

“La guerra è un infanticidio in massa, rinviato di vent'anni.”

— 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…

— Oriana Fallaci

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

— Oriana Fallaci

We do not understand these Americans who, like adolescents, always speak of sex, and who, like adolescents, all of a sudden have…

— Oriana Fallaci

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

— 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

[Indira Gandhi] looked tired that day, and all of a sudden I exclaimed, 'Deep down I don't envy you, and I shouldn't…

— 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…

— Oriana Fallaci

I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.

— Oriana Fallaci

Love isn’t putting chain on someone who wants to struggle and is ready to die for it, love is letting him die…

— Oriana Fallaci

To have realized your dream makes you feel lost.

— Oriana Fallaci

Besides the things I asked [Indira Gandhi], she told me about her son Rajiv, who is married to an Italian girl and…

— Oriana Fallaci