Muammar Qaddafi Quotes


I am a prophet…I am a prophet … I am a prophet…


Context

According to Fallaci, he had a psychotic episode in the middle of the interview and kept repeating the statement over and over again. She urged him to sit and kept repeating to him, “Yes, you are a prophet” each time he uttered the phrase and after a few minutes the episode subsided.


Citations

Muammar Qaddafi, Chief of State, Libya, Interview with Oriana Fallaci, Quoted on PBS The Charlie Rose Show, December 7, 1992

Sourced by: Eigen's Political and Historical Quotations

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Muammar Qaddafi
Muammar Qaddafi
  • Born: June 7, 1942
  • Died: October 20, 2011
  • Nationality: Libyan
  • Profession: Leader

Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, commonly known as Colonel Gaddafi, was a Libyan revolutionary, dictator, politician and political theorist. He governed Libya as Revolutionary Chairman of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977 and then as the "Brotherly Leader" of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1977 to 2011. He was initially ideologically committed to Arab nationalism and Arab socialism but later ruled according to his own Third International Theory.