Gamal Abdel Nasser Quotes

• Our path to Palestine will not be covered with a red carpet or with yellow sand. Our path to Palestine will be covered with blood... In order that we may liberate Palestine, the Arab nation must unite, the Arab armies must unite, and a unified plan of action must be established.

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  Army, Order, Yellow

  Gamal Abdel Nasser's re-election speech (1965) as quoted in Efraim Karsh "Islamic Imperialism: A History" (p. 162), 2006.

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

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Taken, Force

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• Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.

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  Justice, Diversity, Shouting

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• 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.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Missing You, Stupid, Moving

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• We will not accept any...coexistence with Israel...Today the issue is not the establishment of peace between the Arab states and Israel....The war with Israel is in effect since 1948.

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  War, Israel, Issues

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

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  Fate, Destiny, People

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• Our basic objective will be the destruction of Israel. The Arab people want to fight.

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  Fighting, Israel, People

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

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  Support, Decision, Can Not

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• 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.

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  Fire, Blood, Sea

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• Everyone have power of brain but people don't know correctly time of usage. winner just know when, where & how to usage it.

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  People, Brain, Winner

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• The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating and isolating countries from one another. No country can escape looking beyond its boundaries to find the source of the currents which influence how it can live with others.

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  Country, Justice, Diversity

  Gamal Abdel Nasser (1955). “Egypt's liberation: the philosophy of the revolution”

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• The armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are poised on the borders of Israel ... to face the challenge, while standing behind us are the armies of Iraq, Algeria, Kuwait, Sudan and the whole Arab nation. This act will astound the world. Today they will know that the Arabs are arranged for battle, the critical hour has arrived. We have reached the stage of serious action and not of more declarations.

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  Army, Israel, Egypt

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• Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.

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  Fate, Events, Doe

  Robert St. John, Gamal Abdel Nasser (1960). “The boss: the story of Gamal Abdel Nasser”

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• I don't act; I react.

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  Action

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.

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  Life, People, Way

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• Within the Arab circle there is a role wandering aimlessly in search of a hero. For some reason it seems to me that this role is beckoning to us-to move, to take up its lines, put on its costumes and give it life. Indeed, we are the only ones who can play it. The role is to spark the tremendous latent strengths in the region surrounding us to create a great power, which will then rise up to a level of dignity and undertake a positive part in building the future of mankind.

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  Moving, Hero, Play

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• We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.

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  War, Blood, Challenges

  Gamal Abdel Nasser's speech to Egypt's National Assembly in Cairo (November 6, 1969) as quoted in The Washington Post (p. 1), November 7, 1969.

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• We are awaiting aggression by Israel and any supporters of Israel. We will make it a decisive battle and get rid of Israel once and for all... This is the dream of every Arab.

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  Dream, Israel, Battle

  Washington Post, July 27, 1959.

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• If the refugees return to Israel - Israel will cease to exist.

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  Israel, Return, Palestinian Refugees

  "A Mandate for Terror: The United Nations and the PLO". Book by Harris O. Schoenberg, 1989.

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• I believe that we now have a duty to remove the aggressor from our land and to regain the Arab territory occupied by the Israelis. We can then engage in a clandestine struggle to liberate the land of Palestine, to liberate Haifa and Jaffa.

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  Struggle, Believe, Land

  Gamal Abdel Nasser's remarks at a meeting with King Hussein as quoted in Efraim Karsh "Islamic Imperialism: A History" (p. 172), 2006.

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• We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire.

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  Fighting, Fire, Blood

  Wall Street Journal, November 14, 1969.

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• Fate does not play jokes.

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  Fate, Play, Doe

  Gamal Abdel Nasser (1958). “Egypt's Liberation: The Philosophy of the Revolution”

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

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  Long, Mistrust, Conspirators

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• We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand, we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood

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  War, Blood, Soil

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• Events are not a matter of chance.

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  Matter, Events, Chance

  Robert St. John, Gamal Abdel Nasser (1960). “The boss: the story of Gamal Abdel Nasser”

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