Anwar Sadat quotes

Anwar Sadat was an Egyptian politician and military leader who served as the President of Egypt. His leadership is remembered for initiating the peace process with Israel and pursuing significant modernization reforms. He became the first Arab leader to officially recognize Israel, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Here are 29 of his quotes:

Russians can give you arms, but only the United States can give you a solution. (Anwar Sadat)
He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality. View quote
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Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. View quote
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There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones. View quote
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There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people. View quote
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Real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self. View quote
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If you don't have the power to change yourself, then nothing will change around you. View quote
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Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people. View quote
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To damage the sovereignty of the individual is to replace a community inspired by love, benevolence, and beauty by another based solely on power. View quote
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Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars. View quote
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I am convinced that we owe it to this generation and the generations to come, not to leave a stone unturned in our pursuit of peace. (Anwar Sadat)
I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me. View quote
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If you don't have the capacity to change yourself and your own attitudes, then nothing around you can be changed. View quote
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I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace. View quote
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Peace is more precious than a piece of land. View quote
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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 no more despair or loss of faith. View quote
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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. View quote
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To love means to give, and to give means to build, while to hate is to destroy. View quote
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The only matter that could take Egypt to war again is water. View quote
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Only when he has ceased to need things can a man truly be his own master and so really exist. View quote
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This [fundamentalism] is not religion. It is obscenity. These are lies, the criminal use of religious power to misguide people. (Anwar Sadat)
Two places in this world make it impossible for a man to escape from himself: a battlefield and a prison cell. View quote
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If human values were relative, all laws-whether those based on revealed religions or those devised by man-would become meaningless. View quote
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I have realized that my real self is a greater entity than any possible post or title. View quote
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We have always felt the sympathy of the world, but we would prefer the respect of the world to sympathy without respect. View quote
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Anwar Sadat

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Occupation: Egyptian Statesman
Born: December 25, 1918
Died: October 6, 1981
Quotes count: 29
Wikipedia: Anwar Sadat

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