I am a Bedouin warrior who brought glory to Libya and will…

We put our fingers in the eyes of those who doubt that Libya is ruled by anyone other than its people.

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

“You, Bedouin of Libya who saved our lives, though you will dwell forever in my memory yet I shall never be able to recapture…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Only in complete silence, will you hear the desert.”

— Anonymous Bedouin

The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency. Libya has had…

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

I have said to you before that even if Libya and the United States enter into war, God forbid, you will always remain my…

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

We believe America is practicing all kinds of terrorism against Libya. Even the accusation that we are involved in terrorism is in itself an…

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

Lincoln was a man who created himself from nothing without any help from outside or other people. I followed his struggles. I see certain…

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

“The braid must never walk before the moustache." Bedouin proverb:”

— Anonymous Bedouin

“I want you to stay with me.” “So do I.” “Is that what you said in Arabic?” “It was close,” she said. He waited…

— Robert Masello

I was born in the middle of the Sahara desert while my parents were there and that's probably why I have a Bedouin spirit!

— Reham Khan

Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life.

— T. E. Lawrence

“I thought it was too bad for the Bedouin women, but I didn’t think they would hold us French girls to the same miserable…

— Jim C. Cunningham

“I pondered on this desert hospitality and, compared it with our own. I remembered other encampments where I had slept, small tents on which…

— Wilfred Thesiger

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

— Muammar al-Gaddafi