Muammar Gaddafi - Revolution Quotes

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Did Libya invade Italy or was it Italy that invaded Libya? You attack us now as you did then. In other ways, with other systems, by supporting Israel, opposing Arab unity and our revolutions, frowning on Islam and calling us fanatics. We've been too patient with you. We've put up with your provocation for too long. If we hadn't been so wise, we would have gone to war with you a thousand times. We didn't because we think the use of force is a last resort for survival and because we have always been on the side of civilisation. After all, during the Middle Ages we civilised you. You were poor barbarians, primitive, savage creatures.

Muammar Gaddafi
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
I staged a coup d'état and the workers staged the revolution, occupying the factories, becoming partners instead of employees, eliminating the monarchic administration and setting up people's committees. In short, they liberated themselves. Students did the same. Today in Libya, only the people count.

Muammar Gaddafi
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
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
Revolution is when the masses make the revolution. A people's revolution. But even when the revolution is made by others in the name of the masses, expressing what the masses want, it can be revolution. A people's revolution because it has the support of the masses and interprets the will of the masses.

Muammar Gaddafi