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You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.

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Oriana Fallaci
Age: 77 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 29
Died: 2006
Died: September 15
Conspiracy Theorist
Journalist
Politician
War Correspondent
Writer
Florence
Tuscany
Belong
Neither
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Else
States

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If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he's fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose.
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You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.
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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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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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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!
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America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.
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There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth.
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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.
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Journalism combines adventure with culture.
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I am angry at the Jews for many things... If you want to take the example of America, how they hold the power, the economical power in so many ways, and the press and the other kind of stuff... I never realized how it happened and they came to control the media to that point. Why?
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The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.
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Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam. And Italy is an outpost of that province, a stronghold of that colony... In each of our cities lies a second city: a Muslim city, a city run by the Quran. A stage in the Islamic expansionism.
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Besides the things I asked [Indira Gandhi], she told me about her son Rajiv, who is married to an Italian girl and is a pilot for Air India, then of her younger son Sanjay, who is an automobile designer and still a bachelor.
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Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
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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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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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I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.
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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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I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.
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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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