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" 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
Vote
Own
People
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" 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. "
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" This Islam business kidnapped me. "
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" The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism. "
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" 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. "
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" I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple! "
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" Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion. "
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" I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant. "
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" Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man? "
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" 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
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" My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth. "
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" I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born. "
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Only
Born
" Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America. "
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More
Warrior
" You cannot survive if you do not know the past. "
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Survive
Cannot
Know
" I must admit that I am not generous with weak people. It's not in my nature or in my personality. My parents were not generous with weak people, see? "
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Nature
See
" It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man. "
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Instead
Must
Lonely
" 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. "
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Europe
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Puppet
Real
Leader
" The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom. "
Oriana Fallaci
Europe
Freedom
Italy
" I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics. "
Oriana Fallaci
Healthy
Writing
Sacrifice
" Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is. "
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Lies
You
Time
" I don't want to hear about my death. "
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" 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. "
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" I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of. "
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" You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus. "
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" 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. "
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Duty
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" We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century. "
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End
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" A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion. "
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" I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work. "
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Never
Work