Quotes by Oriana Fallaci

“i live on my books. on my writings, i live on my royalties: the percentage an author recieves on each sold copy. and i am proud of it. i am so even though such percentage is small or i should say i...”

“War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.”

“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 Pen...”

“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 eni...”

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

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

“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 read...”

“I am a danger to myself if I get angry.”

“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 t...”

“But here's what I've learned in this war in this country in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.”

“To have realized your dream makes you feel lost.”

“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 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.”

“With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.”

“But here's what I've learned in this war in this country in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.”

“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.”

“The first thought a Western woman has when she arrives in a rigorously Muslim country like Pakistan is that she appears to be the only woman to have survived a tsunami that has washed away all the ...”

“What's the point anyway — Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.”

“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.'”

“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. C...”