«Revolution is when the masses make the revolution. A people’s revolution. But even when the revolution is made by others in the name of the masses, expressing what the masses want, it can be revolution. A people’s revolution because it has the support of the masses and interprets the will of the masses»
Muammar Gaddafi Interview with Oriana Fallaci (2 December 1979), Corrieredella Sera
«Those rats… were attacked by the masses tonight and we eliminated them»
Muammar Gaddafi Radio address on rebel forces in Tripoli, as quoted in «Libya conflict: Col Gaddafi faces rebel uprising on streets of Tripoli» in The Telegraph (21 August 2011) http://www.telegrap.uk
«I won’t be a party to a conspiracy to mobilize the Arabs against the Persians. Only the forces of colonialism benefit from such a conspiracy. I won’t be a party to a conspiracy that splits Islam into two — Shiite Islam and Sunni Islam — mobilizing Sunni Islam against Shiite Islam»
Muammar Gaddafi Interview with Al Jazeera (27 March 2007)
«Women must be trained to fight in houses, prepare explosive belts and blow themselves up alongside enemy soldiers. Anyone with a car must prepare it and know how to install explosives and turn it into a car-bomb. We must train women to place explosives in cars and blow them up in the midst of enemies, and blow up houses so that they can collapse on enemy soldiers. Traps must be prepared. You have seen how the enemy checks baggage: we must fix these suitcases in order for them to explode when they open them. Women must be taught to place mines in cupboards, bags, shoes, children’s toys so that they explode on enemy soldiers»
Muammar Gaddafi Speech to the women of Sabha, October 4 2003; cited in ilfoglio.it http://www.ilfoglio.it/zakor/82
«The era of the masses, which follows the age of the republics, excites the feelings and dazzles the eyes. But even though the vision of this era denotes genuine freedom of the masses and their happy emancipation from the bonds of external authoritarian structures, it warns also of the dangers of a period of chaos and demagoguery, and the threat of a return to the authority of the individual, the sect and party, instead of the authority of the people. Theoretically, this is genuine democracy but, realistically, the strong always rules. That is, the stronger party in the society is the one that rules»
