We have always felt the sympathy of the world, but we would prefer the respect of the world to sympathy without respect.
I have realized that my real self is a greater entity than any possible post or title.
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.
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.
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.
It is democracy I am really suffering from as much as I am suffering from the opposition.
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