“ I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test. 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… Oriana Fallaci
“ Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient? Oriana Fallaci
“ 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 t… Oriana Fallaci
“ 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
“ I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion. Oriana Fallaci
“ 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
“ I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics. Oriana Fallaci
“ The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom. Oriana Fallaci
“ What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentag… Oriana Fallaci
“ With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination. Oriana Fallaci
“ I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am. Oriana Fallaci
“ 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
“ But here's what I've learned in this war in this country in this city: to love the miracle of having been born. Oriana Fallaci
