Philosophical Sayings

432 sayings found from the Contemporary era

There is a conspiracy to control Libyan oil and to control Libyan land, to colonise Libya once again. This is impossible, impossible. We will fight until the last man and last woman to defend Libya from east to west, north to south.

— Muammar Gaddafi 2011
Philosophical

Democracies as we know them are actually highly authoritarian and anti-democratic. He states that parliamentary systems, while well-intended, often end up misrepresenting the interests of the very people they were established to serve.

— Muammar Gaddafi 1975
Philosophical

Partisan politics, he asserts, will always end up resulting in politicians serving the interests of the party rather than the people who voted for them.

— Muammar Gaddafi 1975
Philosophical

Direct democracy, as opposed to representative or parliamentary democracy, is the best remedy for this problem.

— Muammar Gaddafi 1975
Philosophical

Class conflict will always result in the most powerful class dominating the lower classes, particularly through political means.

— Muammar Gaddafi 1975
Philosophical

The true definition of democracy is the supervision of the people by the people.

— Muammar Gaddafi 1975
Philosophical

Laws should be based in religious or traditional principles and says that secular constitutional law is invalid and illogical because it lacks the natural source from which it must derive its justification.

— Muammar Gaddafi 1975
Philosophical

A human being, as an individual, should have the freedom of expression, and even if mad, s/he should have the right to freely express his/her madness.

— Muammar Gaddafi 1975
Philosophical

If an individual is insane, that does not mean that the rest of society are mad, too.

— Muammar Gaddafi 1975
Philosophical

Parliamentarism... is a perverse solution to the problem of democracy. A Parliament can not speak on behalf of the people, because democracy means the rule of the people, not of those who act on its behalf.

— Muammar Gaddafi 1975
Philosophical

Labour in return for wages is virtually the same as enslaving a human being.

— Muammar Gaddafi 1975
Philosophical

In a socialist society no person may own a private means of transportation for the purpose of renting to others, because this represents controlling the needs of others.

— Muammar Gaddafi 1975
Philosophical

No representation of the people — representation is a falsehood. The mere existence of parliaments underlies the absence of the people, for democracy can only exist with the presence of the people and not in the presence of representatives of the peo…

— Muammar Gaddafi 1975
Philosophical

My assets are human values, the nation, glory, history. These are assets that are eternal.

— Muammar Gaddafi Unknown
Philosophical

I have created a Utopia here in Libya.

— Muammar Gaddafi Unknown, during his rule
Philosophical

When others were building castles, I lived in a modest house, and in a tent. I never forgot my youth in Sirte, I did not spend our national treasury foolishly, and like Salah-al-Deen, our great Muslim leader, who rescued Jerusalem for Islam, I took l…

— Muammar Gaddafi 2011
Philosophical

I do not wish to die, but if it comes to that, to save this land, my people, all the thousands who are all my children, then so be it.

— Muammar Gaddafi 2011
Philosophical

Let this testament be my voice to the world, that I stood up to crusader attacks of NATO, stood up to cruelty, stoop up to betrayal, stood up to the West and its colonialist ambitions, and that I stood with my African brothers, my true Arab and Musli…

— Muammar Gaddafi 2011
Philosophical

No, no matter what I did, it was never enough for some, but for others, they knew I was the son of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the only true Arab and Muslim leader we've had since Salah-al-Deen, when he claimed the Suez Canal for his people, as I claimed Lib…

— Muammar Gaddafi 2011
Philosophical

Now, I am under attack by the biggest force in military history, my little African son, Obama wants to kill me, to take away the freedom of our country, to take away our free housing, our free medicine, our free education, our free food, and replace …

— Muammar Gaddafi 2011
Philosophical