Gamal Abdel Nasser Quotes


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

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.

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.

I don't act; I react.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Events are not a matter of chance.

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

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.

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

Fate does not play jokes.

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

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.

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