Oriana Fallaci
NiTe IIII
Demographics
Gender Female
Birth Name Oriana Fallaci
Birthplace Florence, Italy
Birth Date June 29, 1929
Ethnicity Southern European
Overview Centro Italian
Nationality Italian
Career Author, journalist
Color Season Light Summer
Notes and Motifs
Te journalist
Social critic
Had a confrontational interviewing style, earning her recognition for discussions with world leaders
Zionist and critic of Muslim fundamentalist beliefs in Europe
NiTe IIII Unseelie
Fallaci: "My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth."
Fallaci: "We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only."
Fallaci: "I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time."
Fallaci: "Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense."
Fallaci: "I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born."
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."
Fallaci: "I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism."
Fallaci: "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."
Fallaci: "I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans."
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 Pentagon. Their science. Their technology."
Fallaci: "I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work."
Fallaci: "To speak of oneself means to lay bare one's own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one's own soul is not at all like taking off one's brassiere on a crowded beach!"
Fallaci: "I love soldiers. They are my kids, they are my children."
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."
Fallaci: "A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion."
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 its own tail."
Fallaci: "The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom."
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 took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe."
Fallaci: "I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to."
Fallaci: "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."
Fallaci: "I am a danger to myself if I get angry."