I am a danger to myself if I get angry. Oriana Fallaci More Quotes by Oriana Fallaci More Quotes From Oriana Fallaci 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. Oriana Fallaci motherhousefather I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language. Oriana Fallaci languagemenworld Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape. Oriana Fallaci tapemachineslistening 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. Oriana Fallaci soulwarbelieve This Islam business kidnapped me. Oriana Fallaci kidnappedislam I've found what I was looking for, Child: what people call love between a man and a woman is a season. And if, at its flowering, this season is a feast of greenery, at its waning, it's only a heap of rotting leaves. Oriana Fallaci menchildrenpeople How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide! Oriana Fallaci suicideaskingremember 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. Oriana Fallaci usualdogamerica I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to. Oriana Fallaci get-realusedenergy America is God equals America equals Business equals America equals God. Oriana Fallaci united-statesamerica With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination. Oriana Fallaci progressweaknessimagination Journalism combines adventure with culture. Oriana Fallaci journalismadventureculture I met Indira Gandhi in her office in the government palace. The same office that had been her father's - large, cold and plain. She was sitting, small and slender, behind a bare desk. When I entered, she got up and came forward to give me her hand, then sat down again and cut the preliminaries short by fixing me with a gaze that meant: Go ahead with the first question, don't waste time, I really have no time to waste. Oriana Fallaci cuttinggovernmentfather [Indira Gandhi] answered cautiously at first. Then she opened up like a flower and the conversation flowed along without obstacles, in mutual sympathy. Oriana Fallaci obstaclesflowerfirsts Finally [Indira Ganhi] called a beautiful dark little boy who was playing on the lawn, and embracing him tenderly, murmured, 'This is my grandchild; this is the man I love most in the world.' It was a strange sensation to watch this very powerful woman embracing a child. Oriana Fallaci powerfulbeautifulchildren Sometimes I ask myself whether [Indira Gandhi] had, even then, a certain contempt for the system she represented and, years later, would overthrow. Oriana Fallaci certainsometimesyears I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger. Oriana Fallaci feelsbook I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans. Oriana Fallaci disgustedanti-semitism 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 islamicrealkings 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. Oriana Fallaci blocksuicidewar
