"The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom."

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Source : "A Sermon for the West". Oriana Fallaci's address to an audience at the American Enterprise Institute, October 22, 2002.

Oriana Fallaci

#Loss Quotes #Europe Quotes #Islam Quotes

“Jesus was the greatest religious genius that ever lived.”
“Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.”
“The Baha'i celebrity, or the Belebrity, is a character actor with a big head playing an annoying creep on a TV show.”
“How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future.”
“People feel anxious, especially when we have to wonder whether the president, Taiwan's democratically elected president, will be addressed as president. If he cannot even defend his own title, what can he defend for us?”
“A troop surge in Baghdad would put more American troops at risk to address a problem that is not a military problem.”

Source : "Bush will add more than 20,000 troops to Iraq", edition.cnn.com. January 11, 2007.
“I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?”
“For me, it's very childish to tour on a train. And I think that's a powerful quality, to inspire childishness.”

Source : "On the Train with Mumford & Edward Sharpe Tour". Interview with Barry Walters, www.spin.com. April 27, 2011.

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