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Oriana Fallaci was an Italian journalist, author, and war correspondent known for her incisive interviews and fearless reporting. Her work covered major conflicts and she conducted interviews with many world leaders, often sparking controversy. She remains a significant figure in global journalism and literature for her candid style and passionate advocacy. Here are 67 of her quotes:

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

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

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War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.

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

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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

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

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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.

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Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.

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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.

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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.

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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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People like me who have passion are derided: 'Ha ha ha! She's hysterical!' 'She's very passionate!' Listen how the Americans speak about me: 'A very passionate Italian.

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The problem is that the solution does not depend upon the death of Osama bin Laden. Because the Osama bin Ladens are too many, by now: as cloned as the sheep of our research laboratories. In fact, the best trained and the more intelligent do not stay in the Muslim countries... They stay in our own countries, in our cities, our universities, our business companies. They have excellent bonds with our churches, our banks, our televisions, our radios, our newspapers, our publishers, our academic organizations, our unions, our political parties. Worse, they live in the heart of a society that hosts them without questioning their differences, without checking their bad intentions, without penalizing their sullen fanaticism.

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No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.

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Love isn't putting chain on someone who wants to struggle and is ready to die for it, love is letting him die in the way he's chosen.

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We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.

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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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Among today's Italians, when treading upon Haile Selassie's memory, the sense of guilt and shame is such that they react by seeing only his positive traits: the merits of his past actions. His portrayals always brim with excessive deferance, unwarranted admiration and delusion. They go on and on about his priestly composure, his regal dignity, his great intelligence and his generosity towards former adversaries. They never explain who this sovereign, who we made into a victim, really was. They never dare tell us if he was something more, or less, than a victim. For example, that he was an old man hardened in principles which were centuries out of date; that he was the absolute ruler of a nation which has never heard the words rights and democracy, which lives in a near prehistoric fashion in the suburbs, opressed by hunger, disease, ignorance and the squallor of a feudal regime which even we did not experience during the darkest years of the Medieval period.

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I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.

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I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.

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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.

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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.

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