Muammar al-Gaddafi
Muammar al-Gaddafi
Muammar Mohammed Abu Minyar Gaddafi; c. 1942 – 20 October 2011), commonly known as Colonel Gaddafi, was a Libyan revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He governed Libya as Revolutionary Chairman of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977 and then as the "Brotherly Leader" of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1977 to 2011. Initially ideologically committed to Arab nationalism and Arab socialism, he came to rule according to his own Third International Theory before embracing Pan-Africanism...
NationalityLibyan
ProfessionLeader
Date of Birth7 June 1942
CountryLibya
Muammar al-Gaddafi quotes about
There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.
Britain no longer exists. It is a trace of what it used to be.
Good morning, people of the U.N.
Boxing and wrestling are evidence that mankind has not rid itself of all savage behavior.
Africa is closer to me in every way than Iraq or Syria.
The integrity of China was more important than [the people] in Tiananmen Square.
Popular congresses are the only means to achieve popular democracy. Any system of government other than popular congresses is undemocratic.
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.
The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute.
The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever.
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.
The 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.
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.
We put our fingers in the eyes of those who doubt that Libya is ruled by anyone other than its people.