Home / Quotes / Quote by Oriana Fallaci

Quote by Oriana Fallaci

“America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.”

Quote by Oriana Fallaci

Author

Oriana Fallaci (June 29, 1930 – September 15, 2006) was an Italian journalist and author, renowned for her aggressive and incisive interviewing style. Born in Florence, she fought in the Italian resistance during World War II before becoming a journalist. She interviewed numerous world leaders, including Deng Xiaoping, Henry Kissinger, and Yasser Arafat, often challenging them with tough questions. Her works, such as 'Interview with History' and 'The Rage and the Pride,' have left a lasting impact. Fallaci died of cancer in Florence, but her fearless spirit continues to inspire journalists globally. more

You May Also Like

“America is God equals America equals Business equals America equals God.”

America United States

Author:Oriana Fallaci

“Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or had to beat the Raiders in the playoffs. The Jets, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Baltimore Colts, Miami, the Steelers each of the first two times... we all had to deal with the Raiders.”

Firsts Two Deals Cities Beats Seasons Eight Chiefs Champion Bowls Jet Super Bowl Miami Kansas Baltimore Playoffs Kansas City Raiders Steelers Colts

Author:Joe Greene

“the desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them upon contemporaries.”

Spiritual Desire Strong Moral Generations Arrogance Posterity Criteria

Author:Suzanne La Follette

“There is no relation more intimately personal than that of parents to the child they have brought into the world; and there is therefore no relationship in which the community should be slower to interfere.”

World Should Children Parent Community Relation Interfere

Author:Suzanne La Follette

“If responsibility for the upbringing of children is to continue to be vested in the family, then the rights of children will be secured only when parents are able to make a living for their families with so little difficulty that they may give their best thought and energy to the child's development and the problem of helping it adjust itself to the complexities of the modern environment.”

Ifs Giving May Children Littles Helping Problem Able Energy Parent Responsibility Poverty Environment Rights Modern Development Difficulty Complexity Upbringing Secured

Author:Suzanne La Follette

“real freedom is not a matter of the shifting of advantage from one sex to the other or from one class to another. Real freedom means the disappearance of advantage, and primarily of economic advantage.”

Mean Real Matter Sex Freedom Class Economic Advantage Equality Shifting Disappearance Real Freedom

Author:Suzanne La Follette

“When once a social order is well established, no matter what injustice it involves, those who occupy a position of advantage are not long in coming to believe that it is the only possible and reasonable order.”

Believe Wells Long Matter Order Social Position Advantage No Matter What Injustice Reasonable Social Order

Author:Suzanne La Follette

“Motherhood, to be sure, receives a great deal of sentimental adulation, but only if it is committed in accordance with rules which have been prescribed by a predominantly masculine society. Per se it is accorded no respect whatever. When it results from a sexual relationship which has been duly sanctioned by organized society, it is holy, no matter how much it may transgress the rules of decency, health, or common sense. Otherwise it is a sin meriting social ostracism for the mother and obloquy for the child - an ostracism and obloquy, significantly enough, in which the father does not share.”

“No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely be trusted with absolute power.”

Men Humans May Children Human Beings Power Absolutes Trusted Men Women Absolute Power

Author:Suzanne La Follette

“under a monopolistic economic system the opportunity to earn a living by one's labour comes to be regarded as a privilege instead of a natural right. Women are simply held to be less entitled to this privilege than men.”

Men Opportunity Natural Work Economic Privilege Labour Entitled Unemployment Economic Systems

Author:Suzanne La Follette