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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.
The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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.
This Islam business kidnapped me.
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.
We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.
You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.
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.
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.
I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work.
I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.
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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Oriana Fallaci
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BirthDate
29 June, 1929
DeathDate
15 September, 2006
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Italy
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