Quotes by Oriana Fallaci

"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!"

"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."

"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."

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

"It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man."

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

"My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth."

"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!"

"Heroes can be sweet."

"Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is."

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

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

"I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born."

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

"The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette."

"Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?"

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."