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 Copy Share Image
Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. — Anwar Sadat Copy Share
My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place [cell 54 of Cairo Central Prison] taught me that he who cannot change… — Anwar Sadat Copy Share
I promise to crush Israel and return it to the humiliation and wretchedness of the Koran. — Anwar Sadat Copy Share
I found that I faced a highly complex situation, and that I couldnt hope to change it until I had armed myself with the… — Anwar Sadat Copy Share
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 Copy Share
We have always felt the sympathy of the world, but we would prefer the respect of the world to sympathy without respect. — Anwar Sadat Copy Share
Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution. — Anwar Sadat Copy Share
This [fundamentalism] is not religion. It is obscenity. These are lies, the criminal use of religious power to misguide people. — Anwar Sadat Copy Share
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones. — Anwar Sadat Copy Share
Faith means that a man should regard any disaster simply as a fate-determined blow which must be endured. — Anwar Sadat Copy Share
To love means to give, and to give means to build, while to hate is to destroy. — Anwar Sadat Copy Share
