Anwar Sadat Quotes

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• 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…
• 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.
• I found that I faced a highly complex situation, and that I couldnt hope to change it until I had armed myself with the necessary…
• Only when he has ceased to need things can a man truly be his own master and so really exist.
• "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…
• Real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.
• I promise to crush Israel and return it to the humiliation and wretchedness of the Koran.
• 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…
• 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…
• It is democracy I am really suffering from as much as I am suffering from the opposition.
• Faith means that a man should regard any disaster simply as a fate-determined blow which must be endured.
• To damage the sovereignty of the individual is to replace a community inspired by love, benevolence, and beauty by another based solely on power.
• If human values were relative, all laws-whether those based on revealed religions or those devised by man-would become meaningless.
• To love means to give, and to give means to build, while to hate is to destroy.
• I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.
• We have always felt the sympathy of the world, but we would prefer the respect of the world to sympathy without respect.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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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