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Quote by Naguib Mahfouz
I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the indivi

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees. – Naguib Mahfouz

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I defend both the freedom of expression and societys right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things. – Naguib Mahfouz

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Freedom
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Naguib Mahfouz
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If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion. – Naguib Mahfouz

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Religion
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. – E. O. Wilson

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There are more doctors in a single North Shore medical building than in one entire West Side ghetto. – Jack Starr

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Society

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. – Nelson Mandela

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I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, lets face it, at the end of the day, Im not that smart of a guy. – Kid Rock

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Wonder is the desire for knowledge. – Thomas Aquinas

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Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed. – Bhagavad Gita

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail. – Erich Fromm

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