Quotes About Anwar Sadat

#1. I want my grandchildren to look like my grandparents. I don't want them to look like Anwar Sadat or Foo Man Chu or Whoopi Goldberg.

Jared Taylor

#2. I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.

Maajid Nawaz

#3. Don't forget that the peace treaties with Egypt and later with Jordan have already survived several tests: two wars with Lebanon, two Palestinian uprisings, the attack on Gaza, the murder of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.

Tom Segev

#4. Anwar Sadat once said that if you see a good person with admirable qualities, try to adapt those qualities to yourself, and he was such a great man.

Harry Hamlin

#5. He (Anwar Sadat) records that he was almost loathe to leave his prison cell because it was there that he realized that real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

Stephen R. Covey

#6. The only matter that could take Egypt to war again is water.

Anwar Sadat

#7. I promise to crush Israel and return it to the humiliation and wretchedness of the Koran.

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#8. To damage the sovereignty of the individual is to replace a community inspired by love, benevolence, and beauty by another based solely on power.

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#9. "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."

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#10. We have always felt the sympathy of the world, but we would prefer the respect of the world to sympathy without respect.

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#11. If human values were relative, all laws-whether those based on revealed religions or those devised by man-would become meaningless.

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#12. There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

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#13. I do not care for socially recognizable success. I only value that success which I can feel within me, which satisfies me, and which basically stems from self-knowledge.

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#14. I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

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#15. I have realized that my real self is a greater entity than any possible post or title.

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#16. Only when he has ceased to need things can a man truly be his own master and so really exist.

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#17. Two places in this world make it impossible for a man to escape from himself: a battlefield and a prison cell.

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#18. Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

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#19. To love means to give, and to give means to build, while to hate is to destroy.

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#20. It is democracy I am really suffering from as much as I am suffering from the opposition.

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#21. Faith means that a man should regard any disaster simply as a fate-determined blow which must be endured.

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#22. Peace is much more precious than a piece of land ... let there be no more wars.

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#23. Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.

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#24. Land is immortal, for it harbors the mysteries of creation.

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#25. If you don't have the capacity to change yourself and your own attitudes, then nothing around you can be changed.

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#26. I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.

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#27. There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.

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#28. Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.

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#29. He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.

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#30. If you don't have the power to change yourself, then nothing will change around you.

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#31. You're not a realist unless you believe in miracles.

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#32. Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

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#33. 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.

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#34. 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.

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#35. This [fundamentalism] is not religion. It is obscenity. These are lies, the criminal use of religious power to misguide people.

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#36. Let every girl, let every woman, let every mother here [in Israel]-and there in my country [Egypt]-know we shall solve all our problems through negotiations around the table rather than starting war.

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