Lion of the Desert (1980)

Anthony Quinn: Omar Mukhtar

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Quotes 

• 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 : From God we come, and unto God we shall return.

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

• Gen. Rodolfo Graziani : These chains are uncomfortable ?

  Omar Mukhtar : They are... uncomfortable facts.

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

• 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?

• Omar Mukhtar : Your money, like your glory, is not permanent.

• Omar Mukhtar : [Handing the Italian flag to a soldier he's just spared]  Here. Tell your general it does not belong here.