Portrait of Muammar Gaddafi

Muammar Gaddafi

Libyan dictator

Contemporary influential 268 sayings

Sayings by Muammar Gaddafi

There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe - without swords, without guns, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades.

2009 — Statement quoted in 'Terrorists Promise More Attacks Like 9/11' by Steven Stalinsky.
War & Conflict Unverifiable

There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe - without swords, without guns, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades.

2009 — Statement quoted in 'Terrorists Promise More Attacks Like 9/11' by Steven Stalinsky.
War & Conflict Confirmed

There are serious mistakes - among them the one saying that Jesus came as a messenger for other people other than the sons of Israel... Christianity is not a faith for people in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. Other people who are not sons of Israel have nothing to do with that religion... It is a mistake that another religion exists alongside Islam. There is only one religion which is Islam after Mohammed... All those believers who do not follow Islam are losers.

2007 — Statement quoted by Reuters.
Biblical Unverifiable

There are serious mistakes - among them the one saying that Jesus came as a messenger for other people other than the sons of Israel... Christianity is not a faith for people in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. Other people who are not sons of Israel have nothing to do with that religion... It is a mistake that another religion exists alongside Islam. There is only one religion which is Islam after Mohammed... All those believers who do not follow Islam are losers.

2007 — Statement quoted by Reuters.
Biblical Disputed

Israel is a colonialist-imperialist 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.

1979 — TIME Interview.
War & Conflict Unverifiable

Israel is a colonialist-imperialist 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.

1979 — TIME Interview.
War & Conflict Confirmed

I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.

Unknown — Statement.
Wisdom Unverifiable

I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.

Unknown — Statement.
Wisdom Disputed

I think Americans are good, but America will be taken over and destroyed from the inside by the Zionist lobby. The Americans do not see this. They are getting decadent. Zionists will use this to destroy them.

1986 — Interview with The Pittsburgh Press.
Life & Death Unverifiable

I think Americans are good, but America will be taken over and destroyed from the inside by the Zionist lobby. The Americans do not see this. They are getting decadent. Zionists will use this to destroy them.

1986 — Interview with The Pittsburgh Press.
Life & Death Disputed

Britain no longer exists. It is a trace of what it used to be.

Unknown — Statement.
Wisdom Unverifiable

Britain no longer exists. It is a trace of what it used to be.

Unknown — Statement.
Wisdom Disputed

My people have the right to liquidate opponents inside and outside the country, even under broad daylight.

Late 1970s or early 1980s — Statement.
Wisdom Unverifiable

My people have the right to liquidate opponents inside and outside the country, even under broad daylight.

Late 1970s or early 1980s — Statement.
Wisdom Disputed

I am a poet. From time to time, I weep, but only when I am alone.

1986 — To a German interviewer.
Art & Creativity Unverifiable

I am a poet. From time to time, I weep, but only when I am alone.

1986 — To a German interviewer.
Art & Creativity Disputed

Libya is an African country. May Allah help the Arabs and keep them away from us. We don't want anything to do with them. They did not fight with us against the Italians, and they did not fight with us against the Americans. They did not lift the sanctions and siege from us. On the contrary, they gloated at us, and benefited from our hardship…

Unknown — Statement.
War & Conflict Unverifiable

Libya is an African country. May Allah help the Arabs and keep them away from us. We don't want anything to do with them. They did not fight with us against the Italians, and they did not fight with us against the Americans. They did not lift the sanctions and siege from us. On the contrary, they gloated at us, and benefited from our hardship…

Unknown — Statement.
War & Conflict Disputed

The most powerful air defense is the people here are the people al Gaddafi is in the middle of the people this is the air defense.

2011 — Statement during the 2011 civil war, implying the use of human shields.
Power & Leadership Unverifiable

The most powerful air defense is the people here are the people al Gaddafi is in the middle of the people this is the air defense.

2011 — Statement during the 2011 civil war, implying the use of human shields.
Power & Leadership Confirmed
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