Osama bin Laden famous quotes

When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Horse #Strong #People

By God, we shall not stop, God willing, except at the doorsteps of the White House, and to raise the banner of monotheism on their so-called Statue of Liberty.
-- Osama bin Laden

#White #House #Liberty

All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al Qaeda, in order to make generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses without their achieving anything of note other than some benefits for their private corporations,
-- Osama bin Laden

#Loss #Order #Two

I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Military #Want #Taste

We love death. The U.S. loves life. That is the difference between us two.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Love Life #Two #Differences

We did not find it difficult to deal with Bush and his administration, because it is similar to regimes in our countries - both types include many who are full of arrogance and greed.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Country #Greed #Arrogance

I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Fighting #Heaven #Martyr

Every Muslim must rise to defend his religion. The wind of faith is blowing.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Wind

If inciting people to do that is terrorism, and if killing those who kill our sons is terrorism, then let history be witness that we are terrorists.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Son #People #Terrorism

Praise be Allah and prayers and peace upon Mohammed.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Prayer #Praise

We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Way #Innocence #Innocent

Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Hands #Als #Security

The Obama Administration has been an unmitigated disaster
-- Osama bin Laden

#Administration #Disaster

Issue a call to the young generation to get ready for the holy war and to prepare for that in Afghanistan because jihad in this time of crisis for Muslims is an obligation of all Muslims.
-- Osama bin Laden

#War #Issues #Scary

They [the United States] violate our land and occupy it and steal the Muslims' possessions, and when faced by resistance they call it terrorism.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Land #Scary #United States

The battle has been moved inside America, and we shall continue until we win this battle, or die in the cause and meet our maker.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Winning #America #Scary

Bush and Blair ... don't understand any language but the language of force. Every time they kill us, we kill them, so the balance of terror is achieved.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Scary #Balance #Language

I have high regard and respect for those men who erased the disgrace from the forehead of our nation.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Men #Scary #Foreheads

[The damage in New York was] greater than expected.
-- Osama bin Laden

#New York #Scary #Damage

I don't regret what happened there.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Regret #Scary

If the instigation for jihad [holy war] against the Jews and the Americans ... is considered a crime, then let history be a witness that I am a criminal.
-- Osama bin Laden

#War #Scary #Criminals

These events have split the whole world into two camps: the camp of belief and the camp of disbelief.... There is only one God, and I declare that there is no prophet but Muhammad.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Two #Scary #Events

Our job is to instigate, and by the grace of God, we did that, and certain people responded to this instigation.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Jobs #People #Scary

Our Fellow Humans Did This? Using a plane full of civilian passengers to demolish a building filled with the civilian citizens of 80 different nations.Here is America struck by God Almighty ... so that its greatest buildings are destroyed ... I swear to God that America will not live in peace before peace reigns in Palestine, and before the army of the infidels depart the land of Mohammed.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Army #Land #America

What I know is that those who risked their lives to earn the pleasure of God are real men. They managed to rid the Islamic nation of disgrace. We hold them in the highest esteem.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Real #Islamic #Men

Thinking people, when disaster strikes, make it their priority to look for its causes, in order to prevent it happening again.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Thinking #Order #People

The war is between us and the Jews. Any country that steps into the same trench as the Jews has only itself to blame.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Country #War #Steps

The call to wage war against America was made because America has spear-headed the crusade against the Islamic nation, sending tens of thousands of its troops to the land of the two Holy Mosques over and above its meddling in its affairs and its politics, and its support of the oppressive, corrupt and tyrannical regime that is in control. These are the reasons behind the singling out of America as a target.
-- Osama bin Laden

#War #Islamic #Land

Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the region to Florida to use it in critical moments.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Father #Son #Florida

For God and country - Geronimo, Geronimo, Geronimo.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Country #Political #God And Country

For us, the idea was not to get involved more than necessary in the fight against the Russians, which was the business of the Americans, but rather to show our solidarity with our Islamist brothers. I discovered that it was not enough to fight in Afghanistan, but that we had to fight on all fronts against communist or Western oppression. The urgent thing was communism, but the next target was America... This is an open war up to the end, until victory.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Brother #War #Fighting

I am the one in charge of the 19 brothers ... I was responsible for entrusting the 19 brothers ... with the raids.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Brother #Responsible

Acquiring weapons for the defense of Muslims is a religious duty... If I seek to acquire these weapons, I am carrying out a duty.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Religious #Weapons #Defense

America has been hit by Allah at its most vulnerable point, destroying, thank God, its most prestigious buildings.
-- Osama bin Laden

#America #Thank God #Vulnerable

All people who worship Allah, not each other, are equal before Him. We are entrusted to spread this message and to extend that call to all the people.
-- Osama bin Laden

#People #Messages #Worship

And so it has appeared to some analysts and diplomats that the White House and us are playing as one team toward the economic goals of the United States, even if the intentions differ.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Team #White #Goal

And as I was looking at those towers that were destroyed in Lebanon, it occurred to me that we have to punish the transgressor with the same, and that we had to destroy the towers in America, so that they taste what we tasted and they stop killing our women and children.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Children #America #Lebanon

In fact, the life of all mankind is in danger because of global warming resulting to a large degree from the emissions of the factories of the major corporations; yet despite that, the representative of these corporations in the White House insists on not observing the Kyoto accord, with the knowledge that the statistics speak of the death and displacement of millions of human beings because of global warming, especially in Africa.
-- Osama bin Laden

#White #Kyoto #House

For over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula, plundering its riches, dictating to its rulers, humiliating its people, terrorizing its neighbors, and turning its bases in the Peninsula into a spearhead through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Fighting #Years #Land

I have been living in the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan and following its leaders' rules. The current leader does not allow me to exercise such operations,
-- Osama bin Laden

#Islamic #Exercise #Leader

A few streets away a grave-looking Saddam warns: Don't double-park, you could cause chaos! ... I'm concerned for your life.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Parks #Causes #Chaos

I support any Muslims, whether here or abroad.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Support

Every Muslim, from the moment they realize the distinction in their hearts, hates Americans, hates Jews and hates Christians. For as long as I can remember, I have felt tormented and at war, and have felt hatred and animosity for Americans.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Christian #War #Hate

We say our terror against America is blessed terror in order to put an end to suppression, in order for the United States to stop its support to Israel.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Blessed #Islamic #Israel

This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region. He wound up being impressed by the royal and military regimes and envied them for staying decades in their positions and embezzling the nation's money with no supervision.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Military #Father #Royal

The rulling to kill the Americans and their allies - civilians and military - is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in anyh country in which it is possible to do it... to comply iwth God's order to kill the Americnns and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it. We also call on Muslim ulema, leaders, youths, and soldiers to launch the raid on Satan's U.S. troops and the devil's supporters allying with them...
-- Osama bin Laden

#Country #Military #Islamic

It is far better for anyone to kill a single American soldier than to squander his efforts on other activities.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Effort #Soldier #American Soldier

The pieces of the bodies of infidels were flying like dust particles. If you would have seen it with your own eyes, you would have been very pleased, and your heart would have been filled with joy.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Eye #Heart #Dust

An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Pounds #Prevention #Cures

Even as you enter the fourth year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush is still misleading and deluding you and hiding the real reason from you.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Real #Years #Reason

As long as I am alive there will be no rest for the enemies of Islam. I will continue my mission against them.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Long #Enemy #Islam

The values of this Western civilization under the leadership of America have been destroyed. Those awesome symbolic towers that speak of liberty, human rights, and humanity have been destroyed. They have gone up in smoke.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Civilization #America #Rights

This is in addition to our having experience in using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers, as we, alongside the mujahedin, bled Russia for ten years, until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat... So we are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy.
-- Osama bin Laden

#War #Fighting #Russia

So we are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Rather, the policy of the White House that demands the opening of war fronts to keep busy their various corporations - whether they be working in the field of arms or oil or reconstruction - has helped al-Qaida to achieve these enormous results.
-- Osama bin Laden

#War #Oil #White

They were overjoyed when the first plane hit the building, so I said to them: be patient.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Firsts #Patient #Building

The hostility that America continues to express against the Muslim people has given rise to feelings of animosity on the part of Muslims against America and against the West in general.
-- Osama bin Laden

#America #People #Feelings

We declared jihad against the US government, because the US government is unjust, criminal and tyrannical. It has committed acts that are extremely unjust, hideous and criminal whether directly or through its support of the Israeli occupation.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Government #Support #Israeli Occupation

Acquiring weapons for the defense of Muslims is a religious duty. If I have indeed acquired these weapons, then I thank God for enabling me to do so. And if I seek to acquire these weapons, I am carrying out a duty. It would be a sin for Muslims not to try to possess the weapons that would prevent the infidels from inflicting harm on Muslims.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Religious #Thank God #Trying

I was ordered to fight the people until they say there is no god but Allah, and his prophet Muhammad.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Fighting #People #Prophet Muhammad

We, alongside the mujahedeen, bled Russia for 10 years until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat,
-- Osama bin Laden

#Russia #Years #Defeat

We have not found it difficult to deal with the Bush administration in light of the resemblance that it bears to the regimes in our countries, half of which are ruled by the military and the other half which are ruled by the sons of kings.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Country #Kings #Military

I would like to assure the world that I did not plan the recent attacks, which seems to have been planned by people for personal reasons,
-- Osama bin Laden

#People #World #Reason

I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in - and the West in general - into an unbearable hell and a choking life.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Government #America #Rights

Every country in the world has its own security system and its own security forces, its own police and its own army.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Country #Army #Police

Jihad will continue even if I am not around.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Jihad

America is a great power possessed of tremendous military might and a wide-ranging economy, but all this is built on an unstable foundation which can be targeted, with special attention to its obvious weak spots. If America is hit in one hundredth of these weak spots, God willing, it will stumble, wither away and relinquish world leadership.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Military #America #Special

Free men do not forfeit their security, contrary to Bush's claim that we hate freedom. If so, then let him explain to us why we don't strike Sweden, for example.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Hate #Men #Example

Any thief or criminal or robber who enters another country in order to steal should expect to be exposed to murder at any time. For the American forces to expect anything from me personally reflects a very narrow perception.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Country #Order #Perception

We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah,
-- Osama bin Laden

#America #Bleeding #Policy

Speaking about climate change is not a matter of intellectual luxury – the phenomenon is an actual fact … all of the industrialised countries, especially the big ones, bear responsibility for the global warming crisis.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Country #Responsibility #Luxury

You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto agreement so that you can secure the profit of your greedy companies and industries.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Agreement #Kyoto #Waste

It is very important to concentrate on hitting the U.S. economy through all means possible
-- Osama bin Laden

#Mean #Important #Hitting

There is no dialogue except with weapons.
-- Osama bin Laden

#Weapons #Dialogue