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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.

Oriana Fallaci

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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
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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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Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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Instead of learned young people we have donkeys with University degrees. Instead of future leaders we have mollusks with expensive blue jeans and phony revolutionaries with ski masks. And do you know what? Maybe this is another reason why our Moslem invaders have such an easy game.
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I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
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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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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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I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.
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There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth.
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I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
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I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.
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Physical courage is a great test.
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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.
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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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Sometimes I ask myself whether [Indira Gandhi] had, even then, a certain contempt for the system she represented and, years later, would overthrow.
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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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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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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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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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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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