Quotes & Sayings About Sadat

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. — Anwar Sadat

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. — Anwar Sadat

Pain is the result of ignorance. — Maliheh Sadat Razavi

I want my grandchildren to look like my grandparents. I don't want them to look like Anwar Sadat or Foo Man Chu or Whoopi Goldberg. — Jared Taylor

Anwar Sadat once said that if you see a good person with admirable qualities, try to adapt those qualities to yourself, and he was such a great man. — Harry Hamlin

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. — Anwar Sadat

Land is immortal, for it harbors the mysteries of creation. — Anwar Sadat

I have realized that my real self is a greater entity than any possible post or title. — Anwar Sadat

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality. — Anwar Sadat

Don't forget that the peace treaties with Egypt and later with Jordan have already survived several tests: two wars with Lebanon, two Palestinian uprisings, the attack on Gaza, the murder of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. — Tom Segev

Think of the great spirits of the last 50 years: Ghandi killed, not by a Pakistani Muslim, but one of his own Hindus, who hated him because he wanted India for the Muslims, the Sikhs, for everybody; Sadat, killed by the organization that Mr. bin Laden's No. 2 heads now, not by an Israeli, but by an Egyptian. My friend Yitzhak Rabin
after a lifetime defending Israel, killed
not by a Palestinian terrorist, but an angry Israeli because he wanted to lay down arms and take up peace ... Fanatics are defined by their hatreds; free people by their humanity. — William J. Clinton

The only matter that could take Egypt to war again is water. — Anwar Sadat

Out of this unstable mix of technocracy and national security you have a nostalgia developing for colonialism or religion - atavistic in my opinion, but some people want them back. Sadat is the great example of that: he threw out the Russians, as well as everything else that represented Abdel Nasser, ascendant nationalism, and so forth - and said, "Let the Americans come." Then you have a new period of what in Arabic is called an infitah - in other words, an opening of the country to a new imperialism: technocratic management, not production but services - tourism, hotels, banking, etc. That's where we are right now. — Edward W. Said

If human values were relative, all laws-whether those based on revealed religions or those devised by man-would become meaningless. — Anwar Sadat

Shortly after Sisi was elected, his administration announced cuts of 'subsidies' on natural gas and energy consumption and lowered those for bread and other goods. Such action was taboo during the Mubarak and Sadat presidencies for over half a century, but Sisi was able to convince Egyptians he was taking necessary action. — Ahmed Zewail

Never rely on your little knowledge and understanding. There are always some things that you don't know. — Maliheh Sadat Razavi

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people. — Anwar Sadat

Begin claimed that Sadat's visit to Jerusalem was merely a grand gesture, and that what Sadat really wanted was a Palestinian state and — Lawrence Wright

Faith means that a man should regard any disaster simply as a fate-determined blow which must be endured. — Anwar Sadat

The trouble is that we follow each other terribly. — Maliheh Sadat Razavi

If you don't have the capacity to change yourself and your own attitudes, then nothing around you can be changed. — Anwar Sadat

Two places in this world make it impossible for a man to escape from himself: a battlefield and a prison cell. — Anwar Sadat

Only when he has ceased to need things can a man truly be his own master and so really exist. — Anwar Sadat

It is democracy I am really suffering from as much as I am suffering from the opposition. — Anwar Sadat

Peace is more precious than a piece of land. — Anwar Sadat

Don't name our stupidity, ignorance, stupid rules and lack of skills DESTINY! — Maliheh Sadat Razavi

If you don't have the power to change yourself, then nothing will change around you. — Anwar Sadat

We (Israelis) always think that we're at the center of everything. It's true that we didn't make peace with Egypt and Jordan, but with two men, President Sadat and King Hussein. It is possible that we will have to restructure the peace and our relations (so that they are) between one people and another. — Tom Segev

This [fundamentalism] is not religion. It is obscenity. These are lies, the criminal use of religious power to misguide people. — Anwar Sadat

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me. — Anwar Sadat

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land ... let there be no more wars. — Anwar Sadat

"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." — Anwar Sadat

There's a million ways to live on this thing called a planet,
I'mma live everyday, I ain't takin' nothing for granted. — Sadat X

There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people. — Anwar Sadat

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution. — Anwar Sadat

To damage the sovereignty of the individual is to replace a community inspired by love, benevolence, and beauty by another based solely on power. — Anwar Sadat

To love means to give, and to give means to build, while to hate is to destroy. — Anwar Sadat

Eat from the Tree of Life and throw away the verbal ham. — Sadat X

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones. — Anwar Sadat

Don't follow me, follow your mind, be you! — Maliheh Sadat Razavi

Egyptian President Sadat had a belly dancer entertain President Nixon at a state dinner. Mr. Nixon was really impressed. He hadn't seen contortions like that since Rose Mary Woods. — Johnny Carson

A lot of dudes can't function too long in mainstream life because they've been indoctrinated into that penal system where that shapes their life. — Sadat X

I promise to crush Israel and return it to the humiliation and wretchedness of the Koran. — Anwar Sadat

You cannot control anything yet you can affect on everything. — Maliheh Sadat Razavi

When nobody takes a responsibility it's yours. — Maliheh Sadat Razavi

We have always felt the sympathy of the world, but we would prefer the respect of the world to sympathy without respect. — Anwar Sadat

He (Anwar Sadat) records that he was almost loathe to leave his prison cell because it was there that he realized that real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self. — Stephen R. Covey

I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped. — Nawal El Saadawi

Rosalynn said, "Jimmy, if we could only get Prime Minister Begin and President Sadat up here on this mountain for a few days, I believe they might consider how they could prevent another war between their countries." That gave me the idea, and a few weeks later, I invited both men to join me for a series of private talks. In September 1978, they both came to Camp David. — Jimmy Carter

Sadat made us feel more secure. — Naguib Mahfouz

You may be the owner of my efforts results but you will never be able to be the owner of my mind. — Maliheh Sadat Razavi

I had known Mubarak and his wife, Suzanne, for nearly twenty years. He was a career Air Force officer who had risen through the ranks to become Vice President under Anwar Sadat, the Egyptian ruler who fought the Yom Kippur War with Israel in 1973 and later signed the Camp David Accords. Mubarak was injured in the extremist attack that assassinated Sadat in 1981, but he survived, became President, and cracked down hard on Islamists and other dissidents. He ruled Egypt like a pharaoh with nearly absolute power for the next three decades. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

I don't understand what people are talking about in different rhymes glorifying jail. If you like going to bed early, getting yelled at, seeing a fight, seeing somebody getting their head split open, or fighting over the TV then that's the place for you. — Sadat X

Damn it's a shame you're the mighty queen of vials,
With a wide-eyed look and a rotten-toothed smile.
Used to walk with a swagger, now you simply stagger
From one spot on, to the next spot on, to the next spot on, to the next ... — Sadat X

There's a long history in the Middle East of "bread intifadas," starting with 1977 in Egypt, when Anwar Sadat tried to lift bread subsidies. People rebelled and poured into Tahrir Square, shouting slogans against the government just like they did earlier this year. Sadat learned his lesson and kept bread subsidies in place, and so did a host of other Middle Eastern dictators - many of whom were propped up for years by the West, partly through subsidized American wheat. — Annia Ciezadlo

Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals. — Jimmy Carter

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. — Anwar Sadat

Get wreck in the kitchen like she on the Cooking Channel,
And then hide the heat in the car door ...
God damn, she's a mother-to-be, ya hope for twins,
Give me a whole tribe!
And be as sexy as Janet was on the cover of Vibe. — Sadat X

When you feel discouraged or simply lazy, as is bound to happen sometimes, remember the millions of people in the world who have not had your privilege. Remember the poor and obscure lives of those countless millions who suffer from every sort of deprivation and frequently find themselves the unwilling victim of wars, and a variety of cruelties, perpetuated by man on man. Is it not significant that the first bid for self realization, among the poor and downtrodden, is to assert their right to education? — Jehan Sadat

The books which you have read must be a part of you not all of you! — Maliheh Sadat Razavi

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. — Anwar Sadat

Sadat provides an important, insistent voice for continued advancement in peace and social justice. — Jehan Sadat

I never again want to see the face of a starving child or hear the weeping of a mother who has lost her son to war. Peace, this is what my husband gave his life for, and I want the world to know that he did not die in vain. Peace, this is what will make me very happy. — Jehan Sadat

I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison. — Maajid Nawaz

If you want to feel your existence use your mind. — Maliheh Sadat Razavi

You're not a realist unless you believe in miracles. — Anwar Sadat

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. — Anwar Sadat

I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace. — Anwar Sadat