ORIANA FALLACI

I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.

It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.

I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.

I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.

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

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

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.

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.

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.

I don't want to hear about my death.

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.

You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

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

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

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

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

I love soldiers. They are my kids, they are my children.

I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work.