Oriana Fallaci

Oriana Fallaci was an Italian journalist, author and political interviewer. She was a partisan during World War II.

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• I am angry at the Jews for many things… If you want to take the example of America, how they hold the power, the economical power in so many ways, and the press and the other kind of stuff… I never realized how it happened and they came to control the media to that point. Why?
  • Playboy magazine, 1981 interview http://ejpress.org/article/news/western_europe/10903 http://kabobfest.blogspot.com/2006/03/real-oriana-fallaci.html

• 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.http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=10983§ionID=1

• 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.
  • The Rage and The Pride

• Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam. And Italy is an outpost of that province, a stronghold of that colony...In each of our cities lies a second city: a Muslim city, a city run by the Quran. A stage in the Islamic expansionism.
  • The Force of Reason

• 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.'
  • The Rage of Oriana Fallaci, January 27, 2003, The New York Observer

• "Americans," she said, repeating for me something she told the American Enterprise Institute, "you have taught me this stupid word: cool. Cool, cool, cool! Coolness, coolness, you've got to be cool. Coolness! When I speak like I speak now, with passion, you smile and laugh at me! I've got passion. They've got passion. They have such passion and such guts that they are ready to die for it."
  • The Rage of Oriana Fallaci, January 27, 2003, The New York Observer

• Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not 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.
  • The Rage of Oriana Fallaci, January 27, 2003, The New York Observer

• "What's the point anyway -- Of suffering, dying? It teachers us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.
  • A Man, Oriana Fallaci

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• The clash between us and them is not a military one. It's a cultural one, a religious one, and the worst is still to come.

• You ask me about the contrast-between-the-Two-Cultures? Well, to be honest, it annoys me even to talk about two cultures, to put them on the same plane... let's be honest: our cathedrals are more beautiful than the mosques and the synagogues.

• 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.

• The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.

• Islam has always persecuted and silenced its intelligent men."