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
Faith means that a man should regard any disaster simply as a fate-determined blow which must be endured.
It is democracy I am really suffering from as much as I am suffering from the opposition.
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 around the table rather than starting war.
Two places in this world make it impossible for a man to escape from himself: a battlefield and a prison cell.
To damage the sovereignty of the individual is to replace a community inspired by love, benevolence, and beauty by another based solely on power.
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 of self-knowledge."
The only matter that could take Egypt to war again is water.
Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
If you don't have the power to change yourself, then nothing will change around you.
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.