There are things that man is not meant to interfere with, and the robust yet fragile temper of a woman is one of them.

People say, 'Are you afraid? Are you scared for your life?' and I tell them: If I choose today to tone it down, if I choose today to shut up, tomorrow me, you, and all of us will be forced to.

It is very depressing to see that in the 21st century people are still using the same 1950s and '60s style of propaganda.

Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.

I always tell people that a revolution is not an event, it's a process. It is a struggle. And it doesn't usually go smoothly.

People would believe propagate, spread rumors or conspiracy theories in order to protect their own system of denial.

Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.

The worst thing ever that you have to explain your joke because I was very disappointed trying to explain why the joke is funny for the interrogator.

Satire has its limits. It is really up to the people to make the change. The satirist's role ends at the screen.

Everybody grows up with comedy. I mean, Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing.

There are people who believe in Egypt that I - I'm actually - I'm getting paid by external powers and external intelligence entities in order to use satire to bring down the government.

That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields - harvests grace with joy.

Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.'

It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests.

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.

When we started publishing, you had to be better than good. You had to be excellent. But as long as people are reading, I don't care what they're reading.

I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.