Oriana Fallaci Short Quotes

16 Sourced Quotes

View all Oriana Fallaci Quotes
America is God equals America equals Business equals America equals God.

Oriana Fallaci
America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.

Oriana Fallaci
There are three points of view to everything — mine, yours, and the truth.

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

Oriana Fallaci
Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

Oriana Fallaci
Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

Oriana Fallaci
With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.

Oriana Fallaci
I'll parade with those who are alone like me. They exist. They are very few, but they exist. I'll find them.

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
Today's history is written the very moment it happens.... For this reason I like journalism. For this reason I fear journalism.

Oriana Fallaci
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
Death is a thief that never turns up by surprise... Death always announces itself by a kind of scent, impalpable perceptions, silent sounds.

Oriana Fallaci
People like me who have passion are derided: 'Ha ha ha! She's hysterical!' 'She's very passionate!' Listen how the Americans speak about me: 'A very passionate Italian.'

Oriana Fallaci
We do not understand these Americans who, like adolescents, always speak of sex, and who, like adolescents, all discovered that sex is good not only for procreating children.

Oriana Fallaci
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.

Oriana Fallaci
There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.

Oriana Fallaci