Oriana Fallaci

La vita é una tale fatica, bambino. E una guerra che si ripete ogni giorno, e i suoi momenti di gioia sono parentesi brevi che si pagano un prezzo crudele. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#life

What's the point anyway — Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#life

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

#closed #dignity #face #had #humiliate

The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#culture #duty #i #impose #muslims

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

#comes #despotic #elected #general #hateful

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

— Oriana Fallaci

#anti-semitism #disgusted #europeans #i #i am

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#culture #dead #give #moment #period

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

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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

#choose #did #him #his #khomeini

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

— Oriana Fallaci

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