Oriana Fallaci Quotes

I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

Anyway the war is over so far as they are concerned. But to wait for dysentery is not much of a life either.

In war, it feels like everything you're doing is more important because you're in the proximity of violence and death, and that proximity changes your relationship to America because it changes the way you see the world.

The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because it's a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled, life-or-death situation and their fundamental behaviours are exposed, the scrim is taken away and the motivations behind each personality come out to play.

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.

Never fight someone who is more willing to die than you are.

Send me six hundred men who know how to die

In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life.

Living in war is a co- existence with death.

You're never more alive than in battle." "Never more dead after," I say.

There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.

I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up.

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

The first time I experienced war, I thought the world was ending.

With each assignment, I weigh the looming possibility of being killed, and I chastise myself for allowing fear to hinder me. War photographers aren't supposed to get scared.

When you go to war, it's important for everybody to know that they're going to come home in one way or other.

As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war.

Better be killed than frightened to death.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.