The Force of Reason Quotes

“… the animal rights activist Erwin Kessler who like Brigitte Bardot cannot abide the Muslims practicing to butcher the lambs like Dracula, that is, slowly drawing their blood. For criticizing it, he got two months in prison.”
― Oriana Fallaci, The Force of Reason

“If you speak your mind on the Vatican, on the Catholic Church, on the Pope, on the Virgin Mary or Jesus or the saints, nobody touches your ‘right of thought and expression.’ But if you do the same with Islam, the Koran, the Prophet Muhammad, some son of Allah, you are called a xenophobic blasphemer who has committed an act of racial discrimination.”
― Oriana Fallaci, The Force of Reason

“Whoever believes in the myth of ‘peaceful coexistence that marked the relationships between the conquered and the conquerors’ should reread the stories of the burned convents and monasteries, of the profaned churches, of the raped nuns, of the Christian or Jewish women abducted to be locked away in their harems. He should ponder on the crucifixions of Cordoba, the hangings of Granada, the beheadings of Toledo and Barcelona, of Seville and Zamora. (The beheadings of Seville, ordered by Mutamid: the king who used those severed heads, heads of Jews and Christians, to adorn his palace). Invoking the name of Jesus meant instant execution. Crucifixion, of course, or decapitation or hanging or impalement. Ringing a bell, the same. Wearing green, the colour of Islam, also. And when a Muslim passed by, every Jew and Christian was obliged to step aside. To bow. And mind to the Jew or the Christian who dared react to the insults of a Muslim. As for the much-flaunted detail that the infidel-dogs were not obliged to convert to Islam, not even encouraged to do so, do you know why they were not? Because those who converted to Islam did not pay taxes. Those who refused, on the contrary, did.”
― Oriana Fallaci, The Force of Reason

“Интелигентността не познава граници и винаги успява да проникне през стените на узаконения идиотизъм.”
― Oriana Fallaci, The Force of Reason

“[...] myślę, że to ludzie stworzyli Boga, a nie na odwrót. Myślę, że ludzie wymyślili go z samotności, bezsilności, rozpaczy. Czyli po to, by dać odpowiedź na zagadkę egzystencji, aby złagodzić nierozwiązywalne pytania, które życie rzuca nam w twarz... Kim jesteśmy, skąd przybywamy, dokąd idziemy.”
― Oriana Fallaci, Siła rozumu