Oriana Fallaci is one hell of a character
...even if she does believe in animal rights and call herself a Christian athiest.
It's quite a bit of fun to read things like this in a book by a 70 year old lady with cancer: "The trouble is that Mrs. Hunke was a fucking Nazi. As learned as you like, as intelligent as you want, but a fucking Nazi." (from The Force of Reason)
awesome.
"Ms. Fallaci ... believes that ours is 'an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.' Of George Bush, she will concede only that he has 'vigor,' and that he is 'obstinate' (in her book a compliment) and 'gutsy. . . . Nobody obliged him to do anything about Terri Schiavo, or to take a stand on stem cells. But he did.'"
Do we have leaders or just a bunch of damn dirty politicians who follow from the front? A representative government is all well and good but a leader should do more than figure out what a majority of the voting public wants or will approve of and do that. Otherwise we might as well have a pure democracy. Frickin' democracy. For all of Fallaci's independent, politically incorrect thinking, she still doesn't question the great ideal of 'democracy.' Democracy is bad, people.
Anyway, here's another good quote from her(about the decline of Europe): "I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!" source
It's quite a bit of fun to read things like this in a book by a 70 year old lady with cancer: "The trouble is that Mrs. Hunke was a fucking Nazi. As learned as you like, as intelligent as you want, but a fucking Nazi." (from The Force of Reason)
awesome.
"Ms. Fallaci ... believes that ours is 'an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.' Of George Bush, she will concede only that he has 'vigor,' and that he is 'obstinate' (in her book a compliment) and 'gutsy. . . . Nobody obliged him to do anything about Terri Schiavo, or to take a stand on stem cells. But he did.'"
Do we have leaders or just a bunch of damn dirty politicians who follow from the front? A representative government is all well and good but a leader should do more than figure out what a majority of the voting public wants or will approve of and do that. Otherwise we might as well have a pure democracy. Frickin' democracy. For all of Fallaci's independent, politically incorrect thinking, she still doesn't question the great ideal of 'democracy.' Democracy is bad, people.
Anyway, here's another good quote from her(about the decline of Europe): "I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!" source
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