35 Quotes by Anwar Sadat

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.