Oriana Fallaci Quotes

Journalism combines adventure with culture.

You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.

Equality ... like freedom, exists only where you are now. Only as an egg in the womb are we all equal.

I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.

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.

Physical courage is a great test.

I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.

I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.

I don't want to hear about my death.

If you put a pistol against my head and ask which I think is worse, Muslims or Mexicans, I'd have to think a moment, then I'd say the Muslims because they've broken my balls.

Sometimes I ask myself whether [Indira Gandhi] had, even then, a certain contempt for the system she represented and, years later, would overthrow.

[Indira Gandhi] answered cautiously at first. Then she opened up like a flower and the conversation flowed along without obstacles, in mutual sympathy.

Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living.

I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.

It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.

You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom you do everything to gain some right and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.

But here's what I've learned in this war in this country in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.