A biography for Oriana Fallacihasn’t been written yet.
“I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.”
“I love soldiers. They are my kids, they are my children.”
“A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.”
“You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.”
“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!”
“Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?”
“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.”
“I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.”
“This Islam business kidnapped me.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.”
“When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.”
“I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.”
“We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.”
“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.”
“I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.”
“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.”
“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?”