Omar Mukhtar Quotes in Lion of the Desert (1980)

Omar Mukhtar: We will never surrender. We win or we die. And don't think it stops there. You will have the next generation to fight; and after the next, the next. As for me, I will live longer than my hangman.

[Omar Mukhtar protects two surviving Italian soldiers]

Omar Mukhtar: We do not kill *prisoners*!

Arab Warrior: *They* do it to *us*!

Omar Mukhtar: "They" are not our *teachers!*

Omar Mukhtar: Soon you will take everything from me, and you want me to justify your thefts?

Omar Mukhtar: You can only do to me what God decides for me.

Omar Mukhtar: From God we come, and unto God we shall return.

Gen. Rodolfo Graziani: These chains are uncomfortable ?

Omar Mukhtar: They are... uncomfortable facts.

Gen. Rodolfo Graziani: I want to ask you one question. Why did you keep going for so long? I mean, surely you didn't hope to drive us out of Libya with so little, did you?

Omar Mukhtar: We fought you. That was enough.

Gen. Rodolfo Graziani: And you cared nothing for the ruination of your country?

Omar Mukhtar: You are the ruination of my country. What would you do if someone occupied your land?