I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
More Quotes from Naguib Mahfouz:
God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.Naguib Mahfouz
I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.
Naguib Mahfouz
I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
Naguib Mahfouz
Happy is he who can give himself up.
Naguib Mahfouz
In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
Naguib Mahfouz
I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.
Naguib Mahfouz
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Keywords: disagreesThere are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.
Marie de France
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Charles Spurgeon
What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That's all.
Lee Child