Italian - Journalist | June 29, 1929 - September 15, 2006
Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
Oriana Fallaci
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I am a danger to myself if I get angry.
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I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?
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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.
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I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
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I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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