Oriana Fallaci Quotes

It is always the right of the mighty which prevails over the weak, and that is very primitive.

Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humilation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for-the-making-of-rich-men, without bursting the boiler.

Deep down I knew that if Hell existed, it was a real place full of ruthless, venal people, like the commodity pits at the Chicago Board of Trade, Disney World, or oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court.

Might was the measure of right.

Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects.

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

What slavery really demonstrated was that we don't really know how to use energy wisely and that we can be incredibly abusive and barbaric.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds.

I want nothing to do with privilege.

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

Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.

When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.

The beautifully composed imagery of '12 Years a Slave' underscores the savagery of its subject, which is an American South not of knights and ladies but obscene values and a grotesque pageantry, every gorgeous shot of the languid landscape radiating toxicity like a hyperlush blossom that's poison to the touch.

They politics like ours profess, the greater prey upon the less.

What are your masses [of humanity] but mud to be ground underfoot, fuel to be burned for those who deserve it?

The law is solely made for the exploitation of those who do not understand it.

The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose; while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose, especially their lives.

Don't be deceived. There is no justice but strength.

… musty deposits of 2000 years of inhumanity, intolerance and foulness.

It is as much in the order of nature that men should enslave each other as that animals should prey upon each other.