Oriana Fallaci Quotes

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 don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

There's only one side with me. You get the right side. You get the correct version of the facts.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

I’ve never found the truth to be fair and balanced.

No one is a good judge in his own cause.

Men are not necessarily more zealous for truth than they are for error.

The complete truth is not the prerogative of the human judge.

Being unbiased is a lot like being humble: as soon as you think you are, you aren’t. Neither are a finite state of being but a continuous struggle to not allow our perspectives poison our opinions.

Remember that my view, the only true view I can see with, is through the black eyes that I have.

If you only hear one side of the story, at some point, you have to question who the writer is.

I learned early to understand that there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The damage such perception did to me I have felt ever sinceI could never belong entirely to one side of any question.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.