Quote by Naguib Mahfouz
There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society w

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see. – 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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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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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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It is good for society to have this introspection. – Jacques Verges

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Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. – Pope Paul VI

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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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If youre not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you cant think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left. – Robert Sternberg

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