Oriana Fallaci Quotes

What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.

Even oil wealth will not insulate a country from modernity forever.

The beautiful thing about L.A. is that you have 50 countries in one county. Diversity brings power and muscle.

After the Berlin Wall came down and Communism was on the run, I looked around and wondered what the next threat to the United States would be.

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.

India has in fact raced ahead, in ways that are more dazzling and more confusing than America is.

Foreign policy is inseparable from domestic policy now. Is terrorism foreign policy or domestic policy? It's both. It's the same with crime, with the economy, climate change.

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.

What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward.

We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.

The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age.

Sovereignty will fall victim to the flow of people, ideas, greenhouse gases, dollars, drugs, viruses, and e-mails… Sovereign states will increasingly measure their vulnerability not to one another but to forces of globalization beyond their control.

Asia is rich in people, rich in culture, and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history.

We are facing the rise of a Japanese-American technological condominium. Those who are unable to use the new technologies in order to achieve productivity gains will be forced into backwardness and decadence. If we become dependent on foreigners our democracy will be in danger! The Republic will be a mere word.

From the end of WWI to today, American economic might would be the decisive factor in the shaping of the world order.

I think there is some kind of disillusionment in the West about the gains of modernity and of economic growth and it takes a form of skepticism about the gains of prosperity generally.

Today, our world is more interconnected than ever. This offers many opportunities; it creates wealth and new freedoms. Yet our world is also vulnerable, full of friction points and conflicts of interest.

This is the strange thing about South Africa - for all its corruption and crime, it seems to offer a stimulating sense that anything is possible.

Unfortunately, the state of national security under the Trump administration is far from strong.

The world is rapidly changing - and with it, we face new global challenges.

Going to Dubai represents a different way of life.

Modernity is a deal. The entire contract can be summarised in a single phrase: humans agree to give up meaning in exchange for power.