I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism. Oriana Fallaci More Quotes by Oriana Fallaci More Quotes From Oriana Fallaci The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period. Oriana Fallaci giving-updyingcivilization The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization. Oriana Fallaci principlestryingcivilization 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. Oriana Fallaci faultsmoralchallenges And yet, or just for this reason, it's so fascinating to be a woman. It's an adventure that takes such courage, a challenge that's never boring. You'll have so many things to engage you if you're born a woman. To begin with, you'll have to struggle to maintain that if God exists he might even be an old woman with white hair or a beautiful girl. Then you'll have to struggle to explain that it wasn't sin that was born on the day when Eve picked an apple, what was born that day was a splendid virtue called disobedience. Oriana Fallaci girlstrugglebeautiful Instead of learned young people we have donkeys with University degrees. Instead of future leaders we have mollusks with expensive blue jeans and phony revolutionaries with ski masks. And do you know what? Maybe this is another reason why our Moslem invaders have such an easy game. Oriana Fallaci university-degreesgamesblue There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth. Oriana Fallaci perspectivethreeviews No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win. Oriana Fallaci escapinglawwinning You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else. Oriana Fallaci states 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. Oriana Fallaci europecountryyears 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. Oriana Fallaci islamicdoeeurope You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus. Oriana Fallaci If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he's fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose. Oriana Fallaci fightingsheepmen 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. Oriana Fallaci votingfacespeople The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom. Oriana Fallaci islamlosseurope We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century Oriana Fallaci centuryleaderage 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. Oriana Fallaci islamicrunninglying Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price. Oriana Fallaci effortwarchildren I’ll parade with those who are alone like me. They exist. They are very few, but they exist. I’ll find them. Oriana Fallaci paradeslike-me Love isn’t putting chain on someone who wants to struggle and is ready to die for it, love is letting him die in the way he’s chosen. Oriana Fallaci strugglewantlove-is Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a hundred feelings of inadequacy. Not by chance, when I find myself going through an event or an important encounter, does it seize me like anguish, a fear of not having enough eyes and enough ears and enough brains to look and listen and understand like a worm hidden in the wood of history. Oriana Fallaci eyebrainfeelings
