Muammar al-Gaddafi Quotes
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If Abu Nidal is a terrorist, then so is George Washington.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.
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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.
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A woman has the right to run for election whether she's male or female!
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I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.
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The Lybian army is capable of destroying America and breaking its nose.
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I have nothing to say to him [Ronald Reagan], because he is mad. He is foolish. He is an Israeli dog.
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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.
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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.
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Once a ruler becomes religious, it becomes impossible for you to debate with him. Once someone rules in the name of religion, your lives become hell.
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[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.
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Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money.
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The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever.
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During my term in AU, I will initiate an organised compensation claim for Africa and I will fight for a greater voice for Africa in the United Nations Security Council. If they (Western nations) do not want to live with us fairly, it is our planet and they can go to other planet.
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Popular congresses are the only means to achieve popular democracy. Any system of government other than popular congresses is undemocratic.
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Israel is a colonialist-imperialist 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.
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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.
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Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.
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We are used to facing the United States as a fortress from the outside. Now we are finding a breach to penetrate the country (the U.S.) and confront it from within.
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Man's freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man's enslavement of man.
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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.
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There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.
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I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!
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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.
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We [Libyans] support the Palestinian resistance, and all the world supports this. We support their just cause, but we are against terrorism.
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Their ages are 17. They give them pills at night, they put hallucinatory pills in their drinks, their milk, their coffee, their Nescafe.
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Good morning, people of the U.N.
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Muammar al-Gaddafi
- Born: June 7, 1942
- Died: October 20, 2011
- Occupation: Former Prime Minister of Libya
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