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People Quotes by Naguib Mahfouz
- Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.
- When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of…
- 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…
- If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
- In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
- History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
- The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider…
- It's not surprising that truly humanitarian manifestos originate frequently in minority circles or with people whose consciences are troubled by the problems of minorities.
- Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.
- I believe in life and in people. I feel obliged to advocate their highest ideals as long as I believe them to be true. I…
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