I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.

Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire!

If the climate were a bank, they would already have saved it.

I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child from the provinces could go to the center of the country: through baseball, which was my dream.

Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation. If you really want to look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ -- who I think was the first socialist -- only socialism can really create a genuine society.

Some people point to me as the cause of all society's problems, others as if I am the benefactor, responsible for everything good, but I am neither the former nor the latter. I am but a man in particular circumstances, and the most beautiful part is that an individual human life is capable of contributing to the growth, the awakening of the collective strength. That is what matters!

We shall remember Gaddafi our whole lives as a great fighter, a revolutionary and a martyr.