Colonel Muammar Gaddafi Quotes

#1. People here talked about the pre-1967 borders.
To tell you the truth this is astonishing.
Whatever happened to the (Palestinian) cause we had before 1967?
Were we lying to ourselves or to the world?
Thousands of martyrs fell before 1967. What for?
How can you say that Palestine was occupied only in 1967, and that (Israel) must return to the pre-1967 borders?
Does Palestine consist of only the West Bank and the Gaza Strip?
If so, it means that the Israelis did not occupy it in 1948.
They left it to you for twenty years, so why didn't you establish a Palestinian state?
Wasn't the Gaza strip part of Egypt, and the West Bank part of Jordan?
The Jews left them to you for twenty years - from 1948 to 1967.
If that is Palestine, why didn't you establish a state there?
What is the justification for all the wars, the sacrifices, and the economic embargo on Israel before 1967?
The Israelis can sue the Arabs now, and demand billions or even trillions in compensation for the damage caused them in 1948-1967.
You Arabs admitted that the (Palestinian) cause began after 1967.
So the Israelis can ask:
"Why did you fight us before that?"
They will demand Arab compensation for the so-called embargo on Israel, and for the economic damage caused to the Israelis.
If the Israelis sue you, they will win.
They will say:
We suffered an injustice.
We are like an innocent lamb surrounded by wolves.
#Quote by Muammar Gaddafi

#2. We can call it Isratine. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#3. I have said to you before that even if Libya and the United States enter into war, God forbid, you will always remain my son, and I have all the love for you as a son, and I do not want your image to change with me. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#4. Lincoln was a man who created himself from nothing without any help from outside or other people. I followed his struggles. I see certain similarities between him and me. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#5. All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert: Mohammed, Jesus and myself. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#6. In primary school in south-eastern Nigeria, I was taught that Hosni Mubarak was the president of Egypt. I learned the same thing in secondary school. In university, Mubarak was still president of Egypt. I came to assume, subconsciously, that he - and others like Paul Biya in Cameroon and Muammar Gaddafi in Libya - would never leave. #Quote by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#7. A woman has the right to run for election whether she's male or female! #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#8. The Lybian army is capable of destroying America and breaking its nose. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#9. Irrespective of the conflict with America it is a human duty to show sympathy with the American people, and be with them at these horrifying and awesome events which are bound to awaken human conscience. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#10. In the Middle East, the opposition is quite different than the opposition in advanced countries. In our countries, the opposition takes the form of explosions, assassinations, killings. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#11. I am not going to leave this land, I will die as a martyr at the end ... I shall remain, defiant. Muammar is leader of the revolution until the end of time. #Quote by Muammar Gaddafi

#12. We believe America is practicing all kinds of terrorism against Libya. Even the accusation that we are involved in terrorism is in itself an act of terrorism. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#13. There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe - without swords, without guns, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#14. The black people's struggle has vanquished racism. It was God who created colour. Today Obama, a son of Kenya, a son of Africa, has made it in the United States of America. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#15. I won't be a party to a conspiracy to mobilize the Arabs against the Persians. Only the forces of colonialism benefit from such a conspiracy. I won't be a party to a conspiracy that splits Islam into two - Shiite Islam and Sunni Islam - mobilizing Sunni Islam against Shiite Islam. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#16. Even if there comes a time when you do not hear my voice, do not give up. Do not despair. Do not stop fighting for your freedom until you have victory! #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#17. We will fight in every valley, in every street, in every oasis, and every town. We won't surrender again; we are not women; we will keep fighting. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#18. Let the free people of the world know that we could have bargained over and sold out our cause in return for a personal secure and stable life. We received many offers to this effect but we chose to be at the vanguard of the confrontation as a badge of duty and honour. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#19. Africa is closer to me in every way than Iraq or Syria. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#20. The integrity of China was more important than [the people] in Tiananmen Square. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#21. Nothing would please me more, but who else would pump the oil that we need? God damn America. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#22. While it is democratically not permissible for an individual to own any information or publishing medium, all individuals have a natural right to self-expression by any means, even if such means were insane and meant to prove a person's insanity. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#23. Good morning, people of the U.N. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#24. I have nothing but scorn for the notion of an Islamic bomb. There is no such thing as an Islamic bomb or a Christian bomb. Any such weapon is a means of terrorizing humanity, and we are against the manufacture and acquisition of nuclear weapons. This is in line with our definition of-and opposition to-terrorism. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#25. There are serious mistakes, among them the one saying that Jesus came as a messenger for other people other than the sons of Israel ... Christianity is not a faith for people in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. Other people who are not sons of Israel have nothing to do with that religion ... It is a mistake that another religion exists alongside Islam. There is only one religion which is Islam after Mohammed ... All those believers who do not follow Islam are losers. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#26. If Abu Nidal is a terrorist, then so is George Washington. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#27. We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#28. Their ages are 17. They give them pills at night, they put hallucinatory pills in their drinks, their milk, their coffee, their Nescafe. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#29. Blessed are the wretched. How beautiful will be their dawn and how sweet and great will be their victory. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#30. I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#31. Israel is a colonialist-imp erialist phenomenon. There is no such thing as an Israeli people. Before 1948, world geography knew of no state such as Israel. Israel is the result of an invasion, of aggression. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#32. The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#33. We can export terrorism. We can assassinate and set fires inside the territory of the United States as it did to all of us. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#34. Americans are good people. They have no aggressions against us and they like us as we like them. They must know I don't hate them. I love them. I hear it is a complex society inside. Many Americans don't know about the outside world. The majority have no concern and no information about other people. They could not even find Africa on a map. I think Americans are good, but America will be taken over and destroyed from the inside by the Zionist lobby. The Americans do not see this. They are getting decadent. Zionists will use this to destroy them. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#35. Popular congresses are the only means to achieve popular democracy. Any system of government other than popular congresses is undemocratic. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#36. [The] type of education now prevailing all over the world is directed against human freedom. State-controlled education ... deprives people of their free choice, creativity and brilliance. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#37. I have nothing to say to him [Ronald Reagan], because he is mad. He is foolish. He is an Israeli dog. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#38. If a community of people wears white on a mournful occasion and another dresses in black, then one community would like white and dislike black and the other would like black and dislike white. Moreover, this attitude leaves a physical effect on the cells as well as on the genes in the body. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#39. It was far easier for me to see how the war in Syria was in part an unintended consequence of other American wars, no matter how well-meaning they might have been. The toppling of "Saddam Hussein had strengthened Iran, provoked Putin, opened up a Pandora's box of sectarian conflict that now raged in Iraq and Syria, and led to an insurgency that had given birth to ISIL. The toppling of Muammar Gaddafi had made plain to dictators that you either cling to power or end up dead in a sewer. Syria looked more and more like a moral morass - a place where our inaction was a tragedy, and our intervention would only compound the tragedy. Obama kept probing for options that could make a positive difference, finding none. #Quote by Ben Rhodes

#40. When everyone is part of the people's congress, what need is there for an opposition? Opposition to what? You oppose a government! If there is no government, and the people govern themselves on their own, what are they going to oppose? Something that isn't there? #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#41. [Somali maritime violence] is a response to greedy Western nations, who invade and exploit Somalia's water resources illegally. It is not a piracy, it is self defence. It is defending the Somalia children's food. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#42. Boxing and wrestling are evidence that mankind has not rid itself of all savage behavior. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#43. Those who do not love me do not deserve to live. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#44. Women are females and men are males. According to gynaecologists, women menstruate every month or so, while men, being male, do not menstruate or suffer during the monthly period. A women, being female, is naturally subject to monthly bleeding. When a women does not menstruate, she is pregnant. If she is pregnant, she becomes, due to pregnancy, less active for about a year. #Quote by Muammar Gaddafi