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" 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 Pentagon. Their science. Their technology. "

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" I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism. "

" I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant. "

" 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 enigma. "

" I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work. "

" I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time. "

" The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom. "

" We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' 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. "

" I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger. "

" To speak of oneself means to lay bare one's own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one's own soul is not at all like taking off one's brassiere on a crowded beach! "

" I love soldiers. They are my kids, they are my children. "

" Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.' "

" 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. "

" The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism. "

" I am a danger to myself if I get angry. "

" 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. "

" 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 ready to die. "

" You cannot survive if you do not know the past. "

" Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient? "

" I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all. "

" The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period. "

" 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. "

" You cannot work and be at home with your child. But you want both. "

" I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion. "

" I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism. "

" I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple! "

" Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare. "

" I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of. "

Oriana Fallaci

Writer

Sure

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

" Heroes can be sweet. "

Oriana Fallaci

Heroes

Sweet