Sadat X Quotes

#1. There's a million ways to live on this thing called a planet,
I'mma live everyday, I ain't takin' nothing for granted.

Sadat X

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

Anwar Sadat

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

Anwar Sadat

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

Anwar Sadat

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

Anwar Sadat

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

Anwar Sadat

#7. Get wreck in the kitchen like she on the Cooking Channel,
And then hide the heat in the car door ...
God damn, she's a mother-to-be, ya hope for twins,
Give me a whole tribe!
And be as sexy as Janet was on the cover of Vibe.

Sadat X

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

Anwar Sadat

#9. Pain is the result of ignorance.

Maliheh Sadat Razavi

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

Anwar Sadat

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

Anwar Sadat

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

Anwar Sadat

#13. If you want to feel your existence use your mind.

Maliheh Sadat Razavi

#14. 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

#15. "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."

Anwar Sadat

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

Anwar Sadat

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

Anwar Sadat

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

Anwar Sadat

#19. 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.

Anwar Sadat

#20. Damn it's a shame you're the mighty queen of vials,
With a wide-eyed look and a rotten-toothed smile.
Used to walk with a swagger, now you simply stagger
From one spot on, to the next spot on, to the next spot on, to the next ...

Sadat X

#21. The trouble is that we follow each other terribly.

Maliheh Sadat Razavi

#22. A lot of dudes can't function too long in mainstream life because they've been indoctrinated into that penal system where that shapes their life.

Sadat X

#23. Eat from the Tree of Life and throw away the verbal ham.

Sadat X

#24. 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.

Anwar Sadat

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. Don't name our stupidity, ignorance, stupid rules and lack of skills DESTINY!

Maliheh Sadat Razavi

#28. I don't understand what people are talking about in different rhymes glorifying jail. If you like going to bed early, getting yelled at, seeing a fight, seeing somebody getting their head split open, or fighting over the TV then that's the place for you.

Sadat X

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

Anwar Sadat

#30. 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.

Anwar Sadat

#31. Never rely on your little knowledge and understanding. There are always some things that you don't know.

Maliheh Sadat Razavi

#32. Begin claimed that Sadat's visit to Jerusalem was merely a grand gesture, and that what Sadat really wanted was a Palestinian state and

Lawrence Wright

#33. I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped.

Nawal El Saadawi

#34. 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.

Anwar Sadat

#35. Sadat made us feel more secure.

Naguib Mahfouz

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

Anwar Sadat

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

Anwar Sadat

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

Anwar Sadat

#39. You may be the owner of my efforts results but you will never be able to be the owner of my mind.

Maliheh Sadat Razavi

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

Anwar Sadat

#41. 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

#42. Don't follow me, follow your mind, be you!

Maliheh Sadat Razavi