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Quote by Naguib Mahfouz
Todays interpretations of religion are often backward and contradi

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

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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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Society
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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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Society
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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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Change
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Other Quotes from
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I broke with my religion in college. – Anne Rice

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Religion

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. – Richard Dawkins

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Religion

The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence. – Robert Rainy

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Religion

I know its very idealistic and utopian, but I believe we need to just let everyone not be judged in terms of religion, groups or nations or region. – Shahrukh Khan

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Religion

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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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But there is a corollary to freedom and thats personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it. – Esther Dyson

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I dont think you can tell the objective truth about a person. Thats why people write novels. – A. N. Wilson

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