Muammar Gaddafi

Libyan dictator

Contemporary influential 268 sayings

Sayings by Muammar Gaddafi

All right, then nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps.

1975 — Defending his assertion to TIME in 1975 that women's 'defects' meant that their place was in the hom…
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All right, then nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps.

1975 — Defending his assertion to TIME in 1975 that women's 'defects' meant that their place was in the hom…
Strange & Unusual Disputed

Their ages are 17. They give them pills at night, they put hallucinatory pills in their drinks, their milk, their coffee, their Nescafe.

2011 — Explaining why Libyan protestors revolted.
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

Their ages are 17. They give them pills at night, they put hallucinatory pills in their drinks, their milk, their coffee, their Nescafe.

2011 — Explaining why Libyan protestors revolted.
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

We can call it Isratine.

2009 — Offering his solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to an audience at Georgetown University.
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

We can call it Isratine.

2009 — Offering his solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to an audience at Georgetown University.
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.

2008 — Explaining how his country stood apart from the world at a conference at Columbia University in New …
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

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.

1975 — From his 1975 'Green Book'.
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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.

1975 — From his 1975 'Green Book'.
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

I have said to you before that even if Libya and the United States enter into war, God forbid, you will always remain my son, and I have all the love for you as a son, and I do not want your image to change with me.

2011 — Addressing President Obama in a letter.
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I have said to you before that even if Libya and the United States enter into war, God forbid, you will always remain my son, and I have all the love for you as a son, and I do not want your image to change with me.

2011 — Addressing President Obama in a letter.
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

I am not going to leave this land. I will die as a martyr … I shall remain, defiant. Muammar is leader of the revolution until the end of time …

2011 — Speech during the 2011 Libyan civil war.
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I am not going to leave this land. I will die as a martyr … I shall remain, defiant. Muammar is leader of the revolution until the end of time …

2011 — Speech during the 2011 Libyan civil war.
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

You men and women who love Gaddafi … get out of your homes and fill the streets. Leave your homes; attack them in their lairs.

2011 — Speech during the 2011 Libyan civil war.
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You men and women who love Gaddafi … get out of your homes and fill the streets. Leave your homes; attack them in their lairs.

2011 — Speech during the 2011 Libyan civil war.
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

All my people love me. They would die to protect me.

2011 — Statement during the 2011 Libyan civil war.
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

If we decide to, we are able to move to Europe like locusts, like bees. We advise you to retreat before you are dealt a disaster.

Unknown, likely 2011 or earlier — Statement regarding migration to Europe.
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

If we decide to, we are able to move to Europe like locusts, like bees. We advise you to retreat before you are dealt a disaster.

Unknown, likely 2011 or earlier — Statement regarding migration to Europe.
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

The grandstands of public athletic fields are actually constructed to obstruct access to the fields.

1975 — From his 'Green Book'.
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

The grandstands of public athletic fields are actually constructed to obstruct access to the fields.

1975 — From his 'Green Book'.
Strange & Unusual Confirmed