You cannot survive if you do not know the past. Oriana Fallaci More Quotes by Oriana Fallaci More Quotes From Oriana Fallaci Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is. Oriana Fallaci double-standardplaylying But to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madness;if you deny fate life becomes the series of missed opportunities, a regret for what never was and could have been, a remorse of what was not done and could have been done, and the present is wasted, twisted into another missed oppurtunity. Oriana Fallaci fateregretopportunity I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time. Oriana Fallaci israel I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born. Oriana Fallaci miracleuseway Hearing him speak is so fun, reassuring I dare say. You can say all you like about Sihanouk: that he's an atrocious liar, a madman, a fraud, a swashbuckler, an international blot. You may think that, but you cannot deny how in this age in which the political arena seems to generate only dull, obtuse and boring characters with no imagination, he's a kind of miracle. Oriana Fallaci liarsfuncharacter America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates. Oriana Fallaci united-statesamericaschool 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. Oriana Fallaci introducingdenyshould I'm going to show you the real New York - witty, smart, and international - like any metropolis. Tell me this: where in Europe can you find old Hungary, old Russia, old France, old Italy? In Europe you're trying to copy America, you're almost American. But here you'll find Europeans who immigrated a hundred years ago - and we haven't spoiled them. Oh, Gio! You must see why I love New York. Because the whole world's in New York. Oriana Fallaci realnew-yorkwitty I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion. Oriana Fallaci atheismatheistthinking I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism. Oriana Fallaci sponsorsstudentseurope 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 phenomenon. Oriana Fallaci sovereignleaderpresident I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test. Oriana Fallaci umpiresstrengthcourage To have realized your dream makes you feel lost. Oriana Fallaci dreamsuccesslost 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. Oriana Fallaci wealthgainspleasure We do not understand these Americans who, like adolescents, always speak of sex, and who, like adolescents, all of a sudden have discovered that sex is good not only for procreating children. Oriana Fallaci speakchildrensex Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't....out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because that is how he describes himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended. Oriana Fallaci cowboywould-bemay A lot of women ask themselves why they should bring a child into the world? So that it will be hungry, so that it will be cold, so that it will be betrayed and humiliated, so that it will be slaughtered by war or disease? They reject the hope that its hunger will be satisfied, its cold warmed, that loyalty and respect will accompany it through life, that it will be a devote a life to the effort to eliminate war and disease. Oriana Fallaci loyaltywarchildren 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? Oriana Fallaci mediaexampleamerica I'll impose upon you the same arrogance that was imposed on me, and on my mother, my grandmother, my grandmother's mother: all the way back to the first human born of another human being, whether he liked it or not. Probably, if he or she had been allowed to choose, he would have been frightened and answered: No, I don't want to be born. But no one asked their opinion, and so they were born and lived and died after giving birth to another human being who was not asked to choose, and that one did likewise, for millions of years, right down to us. Oriana Fallaci mothergivingyears True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and intelligence. Oriana Fallaci true-powervoicelong
