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
Whatever the time or circumstances, the feeling that I am a peasant gives me a rare self-sufficiency. Indeed, the land is always there. I can go back to it at any time.
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.
"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."
Real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.
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.
We have always felt the sympathy of the world, but we would prefer the respect of the world to sympathy without respect.
If human values were relative, all laws-whether those based on revealed religions or those devised by man-would become meaningless.
My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place [cell 54 of Cairo Central Prison] taught me that he who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never, therefore, make any progress.
Two places in this world make it impossible for a man to escape from himself: a battlefield and a prison cell.
Land is immortal, for it harbors the mysteries of creation.
I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.
There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.