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Oriana Fallaci Quotes

Italian - Journalist | June 29, 1929 - September 15, 2006

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

Courage Great Moral Test Conclusion

When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die.

Life Trust War Child Me Die

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.

Truth Lie Weakness Hypocrisy Born

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.

Police Risks Society Free Place

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

Woman Most Humiliating Thing

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

Art Glory Burden Bear Rare Heavy

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

War Thought You Everyone Patient

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

You Cannot Govern

Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.

End America Warrior More Soviet Who

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.

People Face Voting Dignity Vote Why

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.

Leader Power President See I See

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.

Father Mother House Know Him Where

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