Oriana Fallaci Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“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?”

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

“I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.”

“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 didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.”

“I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.”

“I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.”

“It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.”

“America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.”

“Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'”