Philosophical Sayings

There is a conspiracy to control Libyan oil and to control Libyan land, to colonise Libya once again. This is impossible, impossible. We will fight until the last man and last woman to defend Libya from east to west, north to south.

Democracies as we know them are actually highly authoritarian and anti-democratic. He states that parliamentary systems, while well-intended, often end up misrepresenting the interests of the very people they were established to serve.

Partisan politics, he asserts, will always end up resulting in politicians serving the interests of the party rather than the people who voted for them.

Direct democracy, as opposed to representative or parliamentary democracy, is the best remedy for this problem.

Class conflict will always result in the most powerful class dominating the lower classes, particularly through political means.

The true definition of democracy is the supervision of the people by the people.

Laws should be based in religious or traditional principles and says that secular constitutional law is invalid and illogical because it lacks the natural source from which it must derive its justification.

A human being, as an individual, should have the freedom of expression, and even if mad, s/he should have the right to freely express his/her madness.

If an individual is insane, that does not mean that the rest of society are mad, too.

Parliamentarism... is a perverse solution to the problem of democracy. A Parliament can not speak on behalf of the people, because democracy means the rule of the people, not of those who act on its behalf.

Labour in return for wages is virtually the same as enslaving a human being.

In a socialist society no person may own a private means of transportation for the purpose of renting to others, because this represents controlling the needs of others.

No representation of the people — representation is a falsehood. The mere existence of parliaments underlies the absence of the people, for democracy can only exist with the presence of the people and not in the presence of representatives of the peo…

My assets are human values, the nation, glory, history. These are assets that are eternal.

I have created a Utopia here in Libya.

When others were building castles, I lived in a modest house, and in a tent. I never forgot my youth in Sirte, I did not spend our national treasury foolishly, and like Salah-al-Deen, our great Muslim leader, who rescued Jerusalem for Islam, I took l…

I do not wish to die, but if it comes to that, to save this land, my people, all the thousands who are all my children, then so be it.

Let this testament be my voice to the world, that I stood up to crusader attacks of NATO, stood up to cruelty, stoop up to betrayal, stood up to the West and its colonialist ambitions, and that I stood with my African brothers, my true Arab and Musli…

No, no matter what I did, it was never enough for some, but for others, they knew I was the son of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the only true Arab and Muslim leader we've had since Salah-al-Deen, when he claimed the Suez Canal for his people, as I claimed Lib…

Now, I am under attack by the biggest force in military history, my little African son, Obama wants to kill me, to take away the freedom of our country, to take away our free housing, our free medicine, our free education, our free food, and replace …