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"You can become a politician and improve the institutions of power in your country."
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"The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike."
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"The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau."
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"The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?"
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"The freest societies are in a constant state of revolution."
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"There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man. That is a perfectly simple fact which the modern world will find out more and more to be a fact. Every other basis is a sort of sentimental confusion, full of merely verbal echoes of the older creeds. Those verbal associations are always vain for the vital purpose of constraining the tyrant."
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"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."
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"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."
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"Some people had attack dogs. Ghastek had attack lawyers."
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"While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years."
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"I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party."
Politics
"If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion."
Religion
"The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions."
Tolerance
"I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature."
Money
"I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised."
Thought
"An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers."
Reading
"Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization."
Religion
"If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last."
Autonomy
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."
Answers
"One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages."
Diversity
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