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Quotes by Leader

"The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever."

"Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity."


"Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy."

"The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges."


"The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built."

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment."

"Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money."

"Man should forget his anger before he goes to sleep."

"Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!"

"Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to."

"In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty."

"Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us."

"I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen."


"Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement."

"Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."

"The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly."

"Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends."

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


"Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement."

"Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious."

"You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature."

"The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background."

"Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding."

"There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America."

"What was taken by force, can only be restored by force."

"My aim is to reform to transform. For me, reforms are those policies that transform the lives of ordinary citizens. In the last two years, we have taken a comprehensive package of reforms which go beyond more economic reforms."
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