“To be good or bad doesn't count: life out in this world doesn't depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You'll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather.”

— Oriana Fallaci, book Letter to a Child Never Born

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Italian writer 1929–2006

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