Anwar el-Sadat

Politician

1918-12-25 – 1981-10-06

Anwar el-Sadat was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as President of Egypt from 1970 until his assassination in 1981. He was born on 1918-12-25 and died on 1981-10-06. He shared the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize for efforts toward peace with Israel.

Quotes by Anwar el-Sadat

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual-and the soul of a people.
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Faith means that a man should regard any disaster simply as a fate-determined blow which must be endured.
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To damage the sovereignty of the individual is to replace a community inspired by love, benevolence, and beauty by another based solely on power.
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If human values were relative, all laws-whether those based on revealed religions or those devised by man-would become meaningless.
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To love means to give, and to give means to build, while to hate is to destroy.
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I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.
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Most people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
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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.
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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.
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Two places in this world make it impossible for a man to escape from himself: a battlefield and a prison cell.
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