Velupillai Prabhakaran quotes:

India claimed to have intervened in Sri Lanka to secure Tamil interests. In actual fact, India came to secure its own interests.

India deliberately aggravated Sri Lanka's ethnic crisis. It destabilized Sri Lanka [by training and arming Tamil militants, including the Tigers] so that it could play a dominant role in bringing Sri Lanka within its sphere of influence.

People cannot give up their cause, their rights, for fear of defeat.

A small nation can fight a superpower with determination and dedication.

If the new government rejects our urgent appeal, we will, next year, in solidarity with our people, intensify our struggle for self-determination, our struggle for national liberation to establish self-government in our homeland.

If the Sri Lankan government resorts to state oppression against the Tamils and Muslims, then we will fight.

Through the intensive aspiration of the human soul arises in man the desire for independence.

Traitors are more dangerous than enemies.

All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow.

However formidable a military power you may be, you cannot impose upon a people anything against their will.

I have gained self-confidence, courage and the support of my people.

If I am cheated or betrayed, I will react.

If one is determined to die for the truth, even a common man can create history.

If somebody trusts me, then I will reciprocate.

Only one who liberates himself from his psychological desires and fears indeed in truth qualify as liberation hero.

The struggle for the aim of the liberation of women is the child of fire born on the lap of our liberation movement.

What you have to assess is whether you have the will to fight.

Whatever reforms are carried out in the economy, without deep going changes in men?s mentality ? in their opinion about femininity ? women?s equality may not be possible.

When I was deciding to fight, the thought of winning or losing didn't bother me.