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 History

More quotes about History

• "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

  Confucius on History

• "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

  Abraham Lincoln on History

• "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

  Mahatma Gandhi on History

• "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

  Franklin D. Roosevelt on History

• "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

  Thomas Jefferson on History

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."