Anwar Sadat Quotes

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

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

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

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

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

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

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

"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."

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.

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

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

Real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

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

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

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 psychological and intellectual capacity. My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place had taught me that he who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any process.

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

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

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