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Lion of the Desert (1980)

Anthony Quinn: Omar Mukhtar

Lion of the Desert

Anthony Quinn credited as playing...

Omar Mukhtar

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  • 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.
  • 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?
  • Gen. Rodolfo Graziani: These chains are uncomfortable ?
  • Omar Mukhtar: They are... uncomfortable facts.
  • 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.

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