Oriana Fallaci Quotes and Sayings
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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.”
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“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.”
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“America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.”
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“Hearing him speak is so fun, reassuring I dare say. You can say all you like about Sihanouk: that he's an atrocious liar, a madman, a fraud, a swashbuckler, an international blot. You may think that, but you cannot deny how in this age in which the political arena seems to generate only dull, obtuse and boring characters with no imagination, he's a kind of miracle.”
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“I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.”
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“With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.”
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“I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.”
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“I'm going to show you the real New York - witty, smart, and international - like any metropolis. Tell me this: where in Europe can you find old Hungary, old Russia, old France, old Italy? In Europe you're trying to copy America, you're almost American. But here you'll find Europeans who immigrated a hundred years ago - and we haven't spoiled them. Oh, Gio! You must see why I love New York. Because the whole world's in New York....”
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“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