158 Quotes by Oriana Fallaci

There are three points of view to everything – mine, yours, and the truth.

If you put a pistol against my head and ask which I think is worse, Muslims or Mexicans, I’d have to think a moment, then I’d say the Muslims because they’ve broken my balls.

Life is such an effort, Child. It’s a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price.

Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven’t I the right to paint you as I want?

I defend Israel’s right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.

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

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 don’t even know if I will be around next year. My cancers are so bad that I think I’ve arrived at the end of the road. What a pity. I would like to live not only because I love life so much, but because I’d like to see the result of the trial. I do think I will be found guilty.

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.