Naguib Mahfouz

If we reject science, we reject the common man.

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

The Constitution of the United States allows us to change; I don't have a problem with that.

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.