Oriana Fallaci Quotes

The person who manages the state is me.

It is possible to be dumb and be a college president.

No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.

You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

Headmasters have powers at their disposal which Prime Ministers have never yet been invested.

First, God made idiots, but that was just for practice. Then he made school boards.

I wonder truly at your insolence, that, whereas by God's favor and mine, you have occupied the rank and office of the wise, you have neglected the studies and labors of the wise. Either, therefore, at once give up the discharge of the temporal duties which you hold, or endeavor more zealously to study the lessons of wisdom. Such are my commands.

Jayalalitha has turned out to be a failure as chief minister.

We've entrusted our lives to people who know nothing about life.

You better educate yourself. You don't stand in the front of the line unless you're up there because you know everything that's involved.

Some people are in charge of pens who shouldn't be in charge of brooms.

Our responsibility is one of decision, for to govern is to choose.

It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.

Educated fools; from uneducated schools.

Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took.

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.

History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.

The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance

Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.

Leaders have to lead.