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
Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a 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."
Peace is more precious than a piece of land.
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.
To love means to give, and to give means to build, while to hate is to destroy.
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.
Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.
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.