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Naguib Mahfouz

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نجيب محفوظ April. Month of dust and lies.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced...
PENN JILLETTE He said that academia reminded him of a badly run circus. The faculty members were like underfed ani...
SUSAN HUBBARD Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.
KENNETH L. PIKE Facts often contradict with truths.
DAVID H.K. LEUNG The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that s...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothin...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price ...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between rep...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beauti...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our herit...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and ...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people a...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I ad...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the d...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated unders...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Without literature my life would be miserable.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fas...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ If we reject science, we reject the common man.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his quest...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I have condemned Khomeini's fatwa to kill Salman Rushdie as a breach of international relations and ...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowar...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ The real malady is fear of life, not of death.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his que...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his quest...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part o...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been trans...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that ...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big prob...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ الدنيا من غير طلعة محياها لا تساوي ذره من رماد
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is no...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Happy is he who can give himself up.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our fi...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ إن بلادنا في حاجة إلى جرعات قوية من قلة الأدب حيال المل�...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ He knew Muhammad Iffat was of Turkish descent and stubborn as a mule.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Muhammad Iffat has an inflexible, Turkish mentality but a heart of gold.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Home is not where you are born;
home is where all your attempts
to escape cease
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ ...love is like health. It is taken lightly when present and cherished when it departs.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ An anxious heart is like a string that's out of tune.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ الحــب : لعله جنون أو مرض، ولكنه على أي حال يمثل السعادة...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Laugh till you're exhausted.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ -إنها قسمة عادلة ، فالثراء للأقوياء و الأخلاق للضعفاء
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ عجيبة هذه السلطنة بناسها وعفاريتها..ترفع شعار الله وتغ�...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ سألت الشيخ عبد ربه التائه.
- متى يصلح حال البلد؟
ف...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion.
THOMAS CARLYLE The three great elements of modern civilization: Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion
THOMAS CARLYLE Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their...
SOCRATES Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their te...
SOCRATES Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their te...
SOCRATES Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible...
ELLEN TAUSCHER Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the bui...
BONO In the schools of the Western countries, there is always the subject 'Religion.' The Classic...
ZHANG ZHIDONG The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
THOMAS CARLYLE Some priests unfaithful to the "memory" of Jesus insist more on the festive aspect and the fraternal...
ROBERT SARAH It's hard to believe the life that 'Someone Like You' has taken on. It's proof that ...
DAVID NAIL I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of '...
CHARLES IVES The Lord seeks to establish status quo before His return. He is gathering His sheep, His birds, His ...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN -SENIOR LEGAL CONSULTANT & AUTHOR America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an oppor...
PARKER PALMER Civilization and Religion are incompatible” and “Faith is believing what you know isn’t true.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE pg.90 of Philosophy in the Flesh: We are basing our argument on the existence of at least three stab...
GEORGE LAKOFF Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance.
TOBA BETA Of course I contradict myself. Why else would I often bite my tongue and attempt to put the fire out...
JEN TINDUGAN-ADOVISO What's true will never contradict what's true. Article 2 of the Belgic Confession, based on ...
HUGH ROSS Really it is one truth, sometimes seen as happiness and other times as suffering. In reality, pleasu...
OSHO We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
HAROLD S. GENEEN Science is a trigger of changes of civilization.
Religion is the failsafe of science performan...
TOBA BETA I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to self...
GARY CHAPMAN The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sen...
GEOFF MULGAN There's no way that music could ever go down the tubes. I can't imagine a civilization witho...
CLIVE DAVIS It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.
JERRY SPRINGER We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just...
HERBERT READ Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice ...
G.K. CHESTERTON Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it take...
BEN OKRI Lived religion is a very different thing from strict textual analysis. Very few people of any faith ...
MOHSIN HAMID Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how impo...
KAREN ARMSTRONG Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.
SHIRIN EBADI I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I do...
ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad--but whiskey!
MARK TWAIN For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other y...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Today the salaries of stars are astronomical in comparison with the 20's, but the high cost of t...
POLA NEGRI A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's work...
ROD BLAGOJEVICH Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater ...
MOTHER ANGELICA

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NAGUIB MAHFOUZ An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part o...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been trans...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that ...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big prob...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ الدنيا من غير طلعة محياها لا تساوي ذره من رماد
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is no...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Happy is he who can give himself up.
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NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions...
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NAGUIB MAHFOUZ إن بلادنا في حاجة إلى جرعات قوية من قلة الأدب حيال المل�...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ He knew Muhammad Iffat was of Turkish descent and stubborn as a mule.
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NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Home is not where you are born;
home is where all your attempts
to escape cease
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ ...love is like health. It is taken lightly when present and cherished when it departs.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ An anxious heart is like a string that's out of tune.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ April. Month of dust and lies.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ الحــب : لعله جنون أو مرض، ولكنه على أي حال يمثل السعادة...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Laugh till you're exhausted.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ -إنها قسمة عادلة ، فالثراء للأقوياء و الأخلاق للضعفاء
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ عجيبة هذه السلطنة بناسها وعفاريتها..ترفع شعار الله وتغ�...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ سألت الشيخ عبد ربه التائه.
- متى يصلح حال البلد؟
ف...
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NAGUIB SAWIRIS Letters have been found with my name on assassination lists.
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