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Quote by Naguib Mahfouz
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself. – Naguib Mahfouz

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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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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were. – Naguib Mahfouz

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Todays interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. – Naguib Mahfouz

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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. – H.L. Mencken

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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. – Karl Marx

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Things have never been more like the way they are today in history. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and weve been in wars ever since. Were not a pacific people. – James Lee Burke

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