26 Quotes by Anwar Sadat
Anwar Sadat was an Egyptian statesman who served as the third President of Egypt from 1970 until his assassination in 1981. He played a key role in the Arab-Israeli conflict and was instrumental in the signing of the Camp David Accords in 1978, which led to a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. Sadat was also known for his efforts to modernize Egypt and his policy of "open-door socialism." He was a controversial figure in the Arab world, with some praising him for his courage and vision, while others criticized him for his autocratic rule and his willingness to make peace with Israel.(Bio)
Anwar Sadat Quotes
He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality. (Meaning)
I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.
If you don't have the capacity to change yourself and your own attitudes, then nothing around you can be changed.
I promise to crush Israel and return it to the humiliation and wretchedness of the Koran.
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones. (Meaning)
Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be no more despair or loss of faith.
Real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.
If you don't have the power to change yourself, then nothing will change around you.
To love means to give, and to give means to build, while to hate is to destroy.
Peace is more precious than a piece of land.
Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.
Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.
The only matter that could take Egypt to war again is water.
This [fundamentalism] is not religion. It is obscenity. These are lies, the criminal use of religious power to misguide people.
There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.
Only when he has ceased to need things can a man truly be his own master and so really exist.
To damage the sovereignty of the individual is to replace a community inspired by love, benevolence, and beauty by another based solely on power.
Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.
"Great suffering has a silver-lining that we can be grateful for, because it builds up a human being and puts him or her within reach of self-knowledge."
Land is immortal, for it harbors the mysteries of creation.
Faith means that a man should regard any disaster simply as a fate-determined blow which must be endured.
Whatever the time or circumstances, the feeling that I am a peasant gives me a rare self-sufficiency. Indeed, the land is always there. I can go back to it at any time.
My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place [cell 54 of Cairo Central Prison] taught me that he who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never, therefore, make any progress.
I have realized that my real self is a greater entity than any possible post or title.
It is democracy I am really suffering from as much as I am suffering from the opposition.
― Anwar Sadat Quotes
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