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Muammar Gaddafi

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“Nothing would please me more, but who else would pump the oil that we need? God damn America.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Response to a question on expelling Americans from Libya (March 1973), quoted in Time (2 April 1973) "The Arab World: Oil, Power, Violence
“Libya lived for 5000 years without oil and it is ready to live another 5000 years without it.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have nothing to say to him Ronald Reagan, because he is mad. He is foolish. He is an Israeli dog.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Marie Colvin, 20 June 1986. Sun-Sentinel
“I have a deep respect for the Circassians, and their historical suffering. They prefer to be called Adyghe and are a brave and faithful people who contributed to all countries in which they settled.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am a fan of Atatürk. He is an excellent leader and has tremendous victories over westerners. But I don't like him. Because he turned Turkey into a nation-state. We are all Ottomans, but he refused this honor. Turkey abandoned us and after that we went into collapse. He is responsible for this.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I met Nasser, he said to me, "I see myself when I was young in you. You are the future for the Arab revolution." This meant very, very much to me.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Pittsburgh Press (3 August 1986) "Gadhafi, the man the world loves to hate" by Marie Colvin (UPI)
“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.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Pittsburgh Press (3 August 1986) "Gadhafi, the man the world loves to hate" by Marie Colvin (UPI)
“We [Libyans] support the Palestinian resistance, and all the world supports this. We support their just cause, but we are against terrorism.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Pittsburgh Press (3 August 1986) "Gadhafi, the man the world loves to hate" by Marie Colvin (UPI)
“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.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Pittsburgh Press (3 August 1986) "Gadhafi, the man the world loves to hate" by Marie Colvin (UPI)
“Reagan is mad. If he were here, I would tell him the truth about us. He hears about us only through hostile sources.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks quoted in The Pittsburgh Press (3 August 1986) "Gadhafi, the man the world loves to hate" by Marie Colvin (UPI)
“Reagan plays with fire. He doesn't care about international peace. He plays as if he was in the theater. Reagan wants to dominate the world. He wants to find justification to make war. If he does this, if it goes on like this, a cataclysm will take place. Reagan should come and see that I am not a terrorist in a trench with a grenade in my pocket.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Pittsburgh Press (3 August 1986) "Gadhafi, the man the world loves to hate" by Marie Colvin (UPI)
“My brother! You are my brother for the rest of my life!”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gaddafi expressing his gratitude to Nicolae Ceauşescu after receiving a Romanian translation of the Koran, quoted in Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief (1987) by Ion Mihai Pacepa, p. 101
“I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!... The stupid fool is a zealot, a warrior, and a clever one. But he doesn't accomplish anything.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks quoted in Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief (1987) by Ion Mihai Pacepa, p. 110
“The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency. Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks (2003), quoted in Nonproliferation Norms (2009) by Maria Rost Rublee, p. 161
“The Libyans said they'll buy their way out of these three [terrorism] black lists. We'll pay so much, to hell with $2 billion or more. It's not compensation. It's a price. The Americans said it was Libya who did it. It is known that the president was madman Reagan who's got Alzheimer's and has lost his mind. He now crawls on all fours.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: SBS Dateline (8 October 2003) "The New Libya
“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.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Closing remarks at the African Union summit (4 February 2009), quoted in RFI English (4 February 2009) "Kadhafi closes AU summit, division over plans for 'United States of Africa'" by Zeenat Hansrod
“[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.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks at African Union headquarters, quoted in Daily Nation (5 February 2009) "Gaddafi defends Somali pirates" by Argaw Ahine
“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 do not want to live with us fairly, it is our planet and they can go to another planet.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks at African Union headquarters, quoted in Daily Nation (5 February 2009) "Gaddafi defends Somali pirates" by Argaw Ahine
“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.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks after insulting King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and having his microphone cut (30 March 2009), quoted in The Scotsman (31 March 2009) "Gaddafi walks out of summit after attack on Saudi king" by Salah Nasrawi
“What's going on? … What you are doing is not allowed in Islamic law [halal]. What you are doing is forbidden in Islam [haraam]! … Do you know right from wrong?”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks to captors minutes before death, quoted in msnbc.com (2011 October 21) "Even stashed in a meat locker, Gadhafi divides Libya
“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.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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. When I was five, my brother was shot by an Israeli soldier, since then I have been dedicated to uniting the Arab countries throughout the Middle East and retain a trade flow with the west.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reaction to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, quoted in CBSNews.com (12 September 2001) "Global Outrage At Terror Attacks
“There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Video lecture at Columbia University (23 March 2006), quoted in BBC News (23 March 2006) "Gaddafi gives lesson on democracy
“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.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Video lecture at Columbia University (23 March 2006), quoted in BBC News (23 March 2006) "Gaddafi gives lesson on democracy
“It was our hope that Libya with its revolution would become a model of freedom, popular democracy and a state free from oppression and injustice. However Libya became another conventional state, even a dictatorial or police state. This is deeply regrettable. We are not like that, nor do we want to be like that.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to heads of justice of the Jamahiriya (20 May 2009)
“We have 50 million Muslims in Europe. There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe—without swords, without guns, without conquest—will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech (10 April 2006), quoted in New York Sun (6 September 2009) "Terrorists Promise More Attacks Like 9/11" by Steven Stalinsky
“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.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sermon to a prayer meeting in Niger (30 March 2007), quoted in Reuters UK (30 March 2007) "Gaddafi says only Islam a universal religion" by Salah Sarrar
“Whenever I ask about Pepsi-Cola or Coca-Cola, people immediately say it is an American or European drink. This is not true. The kola is African. They have taken the cheap raw material from us. They produced it, they made it into a drink, and they sell it to us for a high price. Why are Pepsi-Cola and Coca-Cola expensive? Because they have taken our kola, produced it, and sold it back to us. We should produce it ourselves and sell it to them.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Conakry, Guinea (25 June 2007)
“We created the first Fatimid Caliphate, and we will create the second.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSP247642/( August 2007)
“Cairo can’t escapes its Fatimid destiny, Cairo is Cairo of Al-Muizz.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSP247642/( August 2007)
“What is Al-Azhar, it’s Masjid Al-Fatima Al-Zahra.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSP247642/( August 2007)
“The statements of our Kenyan brother of American nationality, Obama, on Jerusalem … show that he either ignores international politics and did not study the Middle East conflict or that it [Barack Obama's expression of solidarity with Israel] is a campaign lie. We fear that Obama will feel that, because he is black with an inferiority complex, this will make him behave worse than the whites. This will be a tragedy. We tell him to be proud of himself as a black and feel that all Africa is behind him.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech on the 38th anniversary of the closure of Wheelus Air Force, quoted in BBC News (12 June 2008) "Gaddafi attacks Obama on Israel
“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.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Televised address to the nation, quoted in guardian.co.uk (22 February 2011) "Gaddafi urges violent showdown and tells Libya 'I'll die a martyr'" by Ian Black
“I am a Bedouin warrior who brought glory to Libya and will die a martyr.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The integrity of China was more important than [the people] in Tiananmen Square.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Televised address to the nation, quoted in guardian.co.uk (22 February 2011) "Gaddafi urges violent showdown and tells Libya 'I'll die a martyr'" by Ian Black
“I salute you, Youth of Conquest, Youth of Nationalism, Youth of the Fatimids.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2011/2/23/defiant-gaddafi-vows-to-fight-on ( February 2011)
“Those rats … were attacked by the masses tonight and we eliminated them.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Radio address on rebel forces in Tripoli, as quoted in "Libya conflict: Col Gaddafi faces rebel uprising on streets of Tripoli" in The Telegraph (21 August 2011)
“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.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Audio message broadcast on the pro-Gaddafi Syrian Al Rai TV on 1 September 2011, quoted on Al Jazeera live blog.
“I call on the Libyan people, men and women, to go out into the squares and the streets in all the cities in their millions. … Go peacefully... be courageous, rise up, go to the streets, raise our green flags to the skies. … Don't be afraid of anyone. You are the people. You have right on your side. You are the rightful people of this land.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Audio message broadcast on the pro-Gaddafi Syrian Al Rai TV on 20 September 2011, as quoted in Libya conflict: Muammar Gaddafi urges mass protests, BBC World News, 6 October 2011
“The final step is when the new socialist society reaches the stage where profit and money disappear. It is through transforming society into a fully productive society, and through reaching in production a level where the material needs of the members of society are satisfied. On that final stage, profit will automatically disappear and there will be no need for money.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Green Book (1975)
“The most tyrannical dictatorships the world has known have existed under the aegis of parliaments.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Green Book (1975)
“Man’s freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man’s enslavement of man.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Green Book (1975)
“Popular congresses are the only means to achieve popular democracy. Any system of government other than popular congresses is undemocratic.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Green Book (1975)
“As you know too well democracy and building of civil society cannot be achieved by means of missiles and aircraft, or by backing armed member of AlQuaeda in Benghazi.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You — yourself — said on many occasions, one of them in the UN General Assembly, I was witness to that personally, that America is not responsible for the security of other peoples. That America helps only. This is the right logic.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our dear son, Excellency, Baraka Hussein Abu oumama, your intervention is the name of the U.S.A. is a must, so that Nato would withdraw finally from the Libyan affair. Libya should be left to Libyans within the African union frame. The problem now stands as follows:-”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“1. There is Nato intervention politically as well as military.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“2. Terror conducted by AlQaueda gangs that have been armed in some cities, and by force refused to allow people to go back to their normal life, and carry on with exercising their social people’s power as usual.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why should we be closer to the Soviets? Because the Americans have challenged us. America is involved in a conspiracy [against the Arab world], primarily because of its policy toward Israel. In our view, whoever is against the Americans stands with us. The enemy of your enemy is your friend.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Time (9 April 1979) "World: An Interview with Gaddafi
“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.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Time (9 April 1979) "World: An Interview with Gaddafi