Top 140 Tariq Ramadan Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.”

— Tariq Ramadan

52. “Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.”

— Tariq Ramadan

53. “Wisdom is always connected to beauty. When you see someone acting by their principles, their wisdom makes them beautiful.”

— Tariq Ramadan

54. “We need modesty not only in the way we dress; we need intellectual modesty.”

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55. “There is no faith, without a critical mind.”

— Tariq Ramadan

56. “I want to be an activist professor.”

— Tariq Ramadan

57. “The message of Islam asks you to be intellectually, spiritually, socially, and politically independent.”

— Tariq Ramadan

58. “We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.”

— Tariq Ramadan

59. “Modesty is the way you deal with beauty not the way you avoid it.”

— Tariq Ramadan

60. “Compelling a woman to wear a headscarf is against Islam, and compelling her to remove it is against human rights.”

— Tariq Ramadan

61. “The only way to resist colonialism is through education.”

— Tariq Ramadan

62. “Serve humanity, regardless of religion. Show solidarity for those suffering and oppressed.”

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63. “Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.”

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64. “Acknowledged differences may create mutual respect, but hazy misunderstandings bring forth nothing but prejudice and rejection.”

— Tariq Ramadan

65. “We need to realize that we should be on the side of any human being who is oppressed.”

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66. “One does not always know how to express the sorrow of the soul. One does not always know how to silence the joy of the heart.”

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67. “We must delve deep into history the better to engage a true dialogue of civilisations. Fear of the present can impose upon the past its own biased vision.”

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68. “I don’t like what you’re doing, but I won’t insult you. Why? Because who you are tomorrow may be better than who I am today.”

— Tariq Ramadan

69. “The logic of freedom of religion implies freedom to be an atheist, even though, from a historical perspective, this has not been accepted in the Muslim world.”

— Tariq Ramadan

70. “We need to challenge the dominant culture: by ethics, principles and values.”

— Tariq Ramadan

71. “My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself.”

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72. “The universe is pregnant with signs that recall the presence of the Creator.”

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73. “The Truth does not belong to you, you belong to the Truth.”

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74. “Times have changed; so must the lenses through which we see the political future.”

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75. “Muslims must decide, lest they end up divided by the very religion that calls upon them to unite.”

— Tariq Ramadan

76. “Every country in Europe needs immigrants for its economic survival.”

— Tariq Ramadan

77. “The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars.”

— Tariq Ramadan

78. “Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.”

— Tariq Ramadan

79. “In sha Allah, God willing, must be the expression of humility of the active actors and it must never be the justification of the passive observers.”

— Tariq Ramadan

80. “Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us.”

— Tariq Ramadan

81. “The best measure of a successful life is the way we turn away, we renounce, and even by the way we depart it.”

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82. “The diversity is the risk of war, the necessity of diversity is mutual respect.”

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83. “Many times I have asked Muslim women not to nurture the victim mentality. stand up for your rights.”

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84. “A good Muslim is not one who is strictest in his judgment, but who is most patient in listening.”

— Tariq Ramadan

85. “Integration is a word of the past, the word of the future and the word of the present is contribution.”

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86. “No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.”

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87. “Always walking along despite the dangers and adversities, despite the injustices and horrors, trusting in God so as not to despair of men and events.”

— Tariq Ramadan

88. “A Muslim should be sincerely religious AND politically aware.”

— Tariq Ramadan

89. “Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom.”

— Tariq Ramadan

90. “While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse – in any way, shape or form – for anti-Semitism.”

— Tariq Ramadan

91. “It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.”

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92. “The suicide bomber who blows up Israeli children cannot transform himself into a martyr. The Palestinian problem is not an Islamic problem.”

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93. “Criticizing to destroy is easy, thinking in order to build is much more difficult to achieve.”

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94. “Culture constitutes an essential element of social and political liberation. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but also the ultimate goal of their liberation and their freedom.”

— Tariq Ramadan

95. “Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations.”

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96. “Islam can only be modernized from within. If I state that I condemn the practice of stoning, that this punishment is despicable, it changes nothing. My fellow Muslims will say: Brother Tariq, you became a European, a Swiss citizen, so you are no longer one of us.”

— Tariq Ramadan

97. “The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this construction today that the West and Islam are entirely separate worlds. This is wrong.”

— Tariq Ramadan

98. “If you want to have a good life, never forget that you are going to die.”

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99. “Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted.”

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100. “Islam, as a religion, has been established in France for a long time, and the religious question has been resolved in this country. Islam does not threaten France’s future in any way.”

— Tariq Ramadan