Portrait of Muammar Gaddafi

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…
Wisdom 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.
Wisdom 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.
Wisdom Confirmed

We can call it Isratine.

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

We can call it Isratine.

2009 — Offering his solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to an audience at Georgetown University.
Wisdom 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 …
Political 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'.
Wisdom Unverifiable

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'.
Wisdom 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.
Biblical Unverifiable

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.
Biblical 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.
Political Unverifiable

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.
Political 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.
Love & Relationships Unverifiable

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.
Love & Relationships Confirmed

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

2011 — Statement during the 2011 Libyan civil war.
Love & Relationships 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.
Wisdom 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.
Wisdom Confirmed

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

1975 — From his 'Green Book'.
Wisdom Unverifiable

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

1975 — From his 'Green Book'.
Wisdom Confirmed
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