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 More Quotes by Oriana Fallaci More Quotes From Oriana Fallaci Equality ... like freedom, exists only where you are now. Only as an egg in the womb are we all equal. Oriana Fallaci where-you-are equality eggs 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. Oriana Fallaci objectivity hypocrisy lying In the legends that males have invented to explain life, the first human creature is a man named Adam. Eve arrives later, to give him pleasure and cause trouble. In the paintings that adorn churches, God is an old man with a beard, never an old woman with white hair. And all the heroes are males: from Prometheus who discovered fire to Icarus who tried to fly, on down to Jesus whom they call the Son of God and of the Holy Spirit, almost as though the woman giving birth to him were an incubator or a wetnurse. Oriana Fallaci hero son jesus One day you and I will have to have a little talk about this business called love. I still don't understand what it's all about. My guess is that it's just a gigantic hoax, invented to keep people quiet and diverted. Everyone talks about love: the priests, the advertising posters, the literati, and the politicians, those of them who make love. And in speaking of love and offering it as a panacea for every tragedy, they would and betray and kill both body and soul. Oriana Fallaci making-love offering people But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born. Oriana Fallaci inspirational war country 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 phenomen. To the same degree that I do not understand power, I do understand those who oppose power, who criticize power, who contest power, especially those who rebel against power imposed by brutality. Oriana Fallaci leader president power [Indira Gandhi] looked tired that day, and all of a sudden I exclaimed, 'Deep down I don't envy you, and I shouldn't like to be in your place.' And she said, 'The problem is not in the problems I have, it's in the idiots around me. Democracy, you know...' I now wonder what she meant by that unfinished phrase. Oriana Fallaci envy tired democracy To be good or bad doesn't count: life out in this world doesn't depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You'll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather. Oriana Fallaci shoes cows survival I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all. Oriana Fallaci written-word opinion book Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America. Oriana Fallaci warrior unions america It brought back to mind the injustice I spoke of, the solitude that oppresses women intent on defending their own destinies, their own dreams, their own mistakes. Oriana Fallaci destiny dream mistake Besides the things I asked [Indira Gandhi], she told me about her son Rajiv, who is married to an Italian girl and is a pilot for Air India, then of her younger son Sanjay, who is an automobile designer and still a bachelor. Oriana Fallaci italian girl son Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare. Oriana Fallaci poison bears art Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want? Oriana Fallaci portraiture portraits want I leave shreds of my soul on every experience. Oriana Fallaci my-soul soul Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living. Oriana Fallaci alive sometimes death Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man? Oriana Fallaci unfaithful husband men You cannot survive if you do not know the past. Oriana Fallaci ifs knows past I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant. Oriana Fallaci tyrants want men 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 mother house father
