Oriana Fallaci Quotes

Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and perpetrated to destroy the rights of man. In this great struggle, every crime has been rewarded and every virtue has been punished.

Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable presumption to make themselves masters of other men, their equals, by means of pride, violence, bad faith, murder, and almost every other kind of crime? Surely the devil drove them on.

Between the people and their enemies there can be nothing in common but the sword; we must govern by iron those who cannot be governed by justice; we must oppress the tyrant...

History of Ireland—lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere—no principle, no heroism.

Tyrannicide: Tyranny is a crime.

You are in Lancaster and I am here the Stern & Cruel tyrant, slave of a Despotic Master, Lincoln. Hundreds of children like yourself are daily taught to curse my name, and each night thousands Kneel in prayer & beseech the almighty to consign me to Perdition. Such is War.

When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.

His perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain Demands devotion, atrocities done in his name.

I came to the conclusion that war was an unacceptable way of solving whatever problems there were in the world--that there would be problems of tyranny, of injustice, of nations crossing frontiers and that injustice and tyranny should not be tolerated and should be fought and resisted, but the one thing that must not be used to solve that problem is war. Because war is inevitably the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. And that fact overwhelms whatever moral cause is somewhere buried in the history of that war.

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.

Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.

The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed!

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

I shall not lick the hand besmeared with the blood of my children, sisters, and brothers.

If officials are too forceful, people will revolt.

Things are being done in Ireland which would disgrace the blackest annals of the lowest despotism in Europe.

War is the second worst activity of mankind, the worst being acquiescence in slavery.

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

It is mad and preposterous to bring to the standard of justice and humanity the exercise of a dominion founded upon violence and terror.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.