Anwar Sadat Quotes

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

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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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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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Peace is much more precious than a piece of land.

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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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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 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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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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