Let the free people of the world know that we could have bargained over and sold out our cause in return for a personal secure and stable life. We received many offers to this effect but we chose to be at the vanguard of the confrontation as a badge of duty and honour.

To force a human being to learn according to a set curriculum is a dictatorial act.

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

We [Libyans] support the Palestinian resistance, and all the world supports this. We support their just cause, but we are against terrorism.

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

There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights.

Africa is closer to me in every way than Iraq or Syria.