“Those rats … were attacked by the masses tonight and we eliminated them.”

— Muammar Gaddafi

Radio address on rebel forces in Tripoli, as quoted in "Libya conflict: Col Gaddafi faces rebel uprising on streets of Tripoli" in The Telegraph (21 August 2011) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8713761/Libya-conflict-Col-Gaddafi-faces-rebel-uprising-on-streets-of-Tripoli.html
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Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist 1942–2011

Charles Foster Johnson (1953) American musician

April 9, 2008 http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=29562_Another_Palestinian_Mass_Murder_Attack&only

“Fascism, with its violence, gets rid of everything: it attacks universities, it closes them and crushes them; it attacks intellectuals, represses them and persecutes them; it attacks political parties; it attacks trade union organizations; it attacks all mass and cultural organizations. Therefore, nothing is more violent, more retrograde and more illegal than fascism.”

Fidel Castro (1926–2016) former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba

Speech (2 December 1971) http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/1971/esp/f021271e.html

“They are very dangerous, but we exterminate them like rats.”

Jusuf Prazina (1962–1993) Bosnian mobster

On Serb snipers in the siege of Sarajevo. http://www.bhdani.com/arhiva/259/t25905.shtml
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“But the answer to the attacks must be more democracy and more openness. Otherwise, those who were behind them will have achieved their goals.”

Jens Stoltenberg (1959) Norwegian politician, 13th Secretary-General of NATO, 27th Prime Minister of Norway

Men svaret på angrepene må være mer demokrati og mer åpenhet. I motsatt fall vil de som sto bak, ha oppnådd sine mål.
Following the attacks of 22 July 2011 in Oslo and Utøya
"Statsministeren: – Svaret er enda mer åpenhet." http://dt.no/nyheter/statsministeren-svaret-er-enda-mer-apenhet-1.6379832 dt.no. 23 July 2011. (In Norwegian.)
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