Quotes from Anwar Sadat

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

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.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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