Quotes from Oriana Fallaci

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.

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.

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.

To have realized your dream makes you feel lost.

Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'

I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.

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

Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.

You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.

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

I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work.

The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.

I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers.

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.

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

There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth.

I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.