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
I have nothing to say to him [Ronald Reagan], because he is mad. He is foolish. He is an Israeli dog.
I am a Bedouin warrior who brought glory to Libya and will die a martyr.
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.
Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money.
We can call it Isratine.
Their ages are 17. They give them pills at night, they put hallucinatory pills in their drinks, their milk, their coffee, their Nescafe.
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.
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.
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.
I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.
I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!
Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.
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.
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.