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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. "
Oriana Fallaci
Him
Without
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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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Weakness
Born
Hypocrisy
" I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger. "
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Alone
Read
" America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail. "
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" Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America. "
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More
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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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Woman
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" I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of. "
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Writer
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" I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to. "
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Get
Angry
Energy
" A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion. "
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Civilization
Culture
" I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk. "
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Shy
You
Talk
" My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth. "
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Weapon
Truth
Soldier
" Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient? "
Oriana Fallaci
Thought
Patient
Everyone
" We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century. "
Oriana Fallaci
Leaders
End
Without
" The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom. "
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Europe
Freedom
Italy
" I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test. "
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Conclusion
Great
Courage
" I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple! "
Oriana Fallaci
Atheist
Think
Simple
" You cannot survive if you do not know the past. "
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Survive
Cannot
Know
" I love soldiers. They are my kids, they are my children. "
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Love
Kids
Children
" 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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Life
Child
You
" 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
" 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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Islam
Europe
Sense
" I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all. "
Oriana Fallaci
Books
Opinion
Through
" It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces. "
Oriana Fallaci
Faces
Life
Courage
" It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man. "
Oriana Fallaci
Instead
Must
Lonely
" 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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Risks
Place
Society
" The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette. "
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Most
Woman
Thing
" I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant. "
Oriana Fallaci
Wanted
Tyrant
Want
" 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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I Am
Nature
See
" I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers. "
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Suicide
Enemy
People
" 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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Values
Duty
Principles
" 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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Truth
You
Far