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Gamal Abdel Nasser Quotes


The second President of Egypt from 1954 until his death. He led the bloodless coup which toppled the monarchy of King Farouk and heralded a new period of modernization and socialist reform in Egypt together with a profound advancement of pan-Arab nationalism.
(1918 - 1970)


Events are not a matter of chance.

He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision.

I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me.

People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.

There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.

They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.

What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.