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
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.
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.
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.
Ladies and gentlemen, there are moments in the lives of nations and peoples when it is incumbent upon those known for their wisdom and clarity of vision to survey the problem, with all its complexities and vain memories, in a bold drive toward new ho
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.