Occupation: Journalist Birth: June 29, 1930 Death: September 15, 2006
I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to..
Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!.. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: So….
I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test..
I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond reli….
I'm going to show you the real New York - witty, smart, and international - like any metropolis. Tell me this: where in Europe can you find old Hunga….
America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates..
I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language..
We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.
Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?.
Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would sp….
The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period..
This Islam business kidnapped me..
America is God equals America equals Business equals America equals God..
Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hatef….
Hearing him speak is so fun, reassuring I dare say. You can say all you like about Sihanouk: that he's an atrocious liar, a madman, a fraud, a swashb….
Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion..
I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans..
I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion..
Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam. And Italy is an outpost of that province, a stronghold of that colony... In each….
Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?.
Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a re….