Anwar Sadat
Anwar Sadat
Muhammad Anwar el-Sadatwas the third President of Egypt, serving from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981. Sadat was a senior member of the Free Officers who overthrew King Farouk in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and a close confidant of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, under whom he served as Vice President twice and whom he succeeded as President in 1970...
NationalityEgyptian
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth25 December 1918
CityMit Abu al-Kum, Egypt
CountryEgypt
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.
Real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.
This [fundamentalism] is not religion. It is obscenity. These are lies, the criminal use of religious power to misguide people.
If you don't have the capacity to change yourself and your own attitudes, then nothing around you can be changed.
I promise to crush Israel and return it to the humiliation and wretchedness of the Koran.
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
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.
He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.
I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.
To love means to give, and to give means to build, while to hate is to destroy.
There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.
Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.
Peace is more precious than a piece of land.
Land is immortal, for it harbors the mysteries of creation.