Naguib Mahfouz
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Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
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If we reject science, we reject the common man.
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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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.
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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.