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Let the free people of the world know that we could have bargained over and sold out our cause in return for a personal secure and stable life. We received many offers to this effect but we chose to be at the vanguard of the confrontation as a badge of duty and honour.

— Muammar Gaddafi

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The final step is when the new socialist society reaches the stage where profit and money disappear.

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Man’s freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man’s enslavement of man.

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I am a Bedouin warrior who brought glory to Libya and will die a martyr.

On that final stage, profit will automatically disappear and there will be no need for money.

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Thus the working class turns out to be a separate society, showing the same contradictions as the old society.

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