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.

Oriana Fallaci

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

Oriana Fallaci

giving-up dying civilization

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.

Oriana Fallaci

principles trying civilization

There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.

Oriana Fallaci

faults moral challenges

And yet, or just for this reason, it's so fascinating to be a woman. It's an adventure that takes such courage, a challenge that's never boring. You'll have so many things to engage you if you're born a woman. To begin with, you'll have to struggle to maintain that if God exists he might even be an old woman with white hair or a beautiful girl. Then you'll have to struggle to explain that it wasn't sin that was born on the day when Eve picked an apple, what was born that day was a splendid virtue called disobedience.

Oriana Fallaci

girl struggle beautiful

Instead of learned young people we have donkeys with University degrees. Instead of future leaders we have mollusks with expensive blue jeans and phony revolutionaries with ski masks. And do you know what? Maybe this is another reason why our Moslem invaders have such an easy game.

Oriana Fallaci

university-degrees games blue

There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth.

Oriana Fallaci

perspective three views

No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.

Oriana Fallaci

escaping law winning

You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.

Oriana Fallaci

states

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.

Oriana Fallaci

islamic doe europe

You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.

Oriana Fallaci

If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he's fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose.

Oriana Fallaci

fighting sheep men

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

voting faces people

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

Oriana Fallaci

islam loss europe

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century

Oriana Fallaci

century leader age

Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam. And Italy is an outpost of that province, a stronghold of that colony... In each of our cities lies a second city: a Muslim city, a city run by the Quran. A stage in the Islamic expansionism.

Oriana Fallaci

islamic running lying

Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price.

Oriana Fallaci

effort war children

I’ll parade with those who are alone like me. They exist. They are very few, but they exist. I’ll find them.

Oriana Fallaci

parades like-me

Love isn’t putting chain on someone who wants to struggle and is ready to die for it, love is letting him die in the way he’s chosen.

Oriana Fallaci

struggle want love-is

Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a hundred feelings of inadequacy. Not by chance, when I find myself going through an event or an important encounter, does it seize me like anguish, a fear of not having enough eyes and enough ears and enough brains to look and listen and understand like a worm hidden in the wood of history.

Oriana Fallaci

eye brain feelings

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-standard play lying