Famous Quotes

"History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself."

Naguib Mahfouz on Society

More quotes about Society

• "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Society

• "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

  Robert A. Heinlein on Society

• "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

  Jiddu Krishnamurti on Society

• "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

  Dwight D. Eisenhower on Society

• "There is more to life than increasing its speed."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Society

More quotes by Naguib Mahfouz

• "At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic."

• "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."

• "As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak."

• "I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things."

• "God did not intend religion to be an exercise club."