Top 140 Tariq Ramadan Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Don’t nurture a sense of guilt; rather, nurture a sense of responsibility married with a sense of humility.”

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102. “The desert is often the locus of prophecies because it naturally offers to the human gaze the horizons of the infinite.”

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103. “In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.”

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104. “I am too old to think that numbers are creating change.”

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105. “We integrate the good wherever we find it.”

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106. “Being Muslim has become synonymous with pointed questions, with tension and mistrust, even with conflict. It has become a global phenomenon with profound consequences for inter-communal relations, political rhetoric and policies at the local, regional, national and international level.”

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107. “Your enemy is not the refugee. Your enemy is the one who made him a refugee.”

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108. “Nothing is ever final” is a lesson in humility; “no final judgment should be passed” is a promise of hope. The.”

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109. “Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.”

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110. “Pray in the night so that you can change the world in the day.”

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111. “National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.”

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112. “Deeply, simply: he who cannot love cannot understand.”

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113. “Political rhetoric leads only to confusion.”

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114. “We have to be the media when media is silent.”

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115. “Mental ghettos are not mirages; they actually exist in palpable reality: being “open” inside one’s mental or intellectual ghetto does not open its door but simply allows one to harbour the illusion that there is no ghetto and no door. The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars.”

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116. “We fail when we try to give simple answers to complicated problems.”

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117. “There is dignity in your being even if there’s indignity in what you’re doing.”

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118. “Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.”

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119. “When we begin to look around us, to observe individuals and societies, and to study philosophies and religions, we realize that our loneliness is shared. Our solitude is plural, and our singularity is the similarity between us.”

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120. “Emancipation can only come from within; it cannot be dictated by someone else. A law banning the wearing of headscarves changes nothing, except perhaps external appearance. Naturally, Islamic feminism must also include the right to education, to work and the freedom to select one’s own husband.”

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121. “Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.”

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122. “Even the concept of the infidel is misleading, because the infidel is normally someone with a different faith, someone who refuses to recognize the truth of the words of the Koran, as revealed by God. He has every right to do so, as long as he does not question my right to believe in my truth.”

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123. “There can be no universal without diversity: the quest for the ultimate commonality would be pointless if we did not recognize the initial differences that explain just why we have to go in search of the universal.”

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124. “Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.”

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125. “The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society.”

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126. “And the crowd often betrayed the people.”

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127. “A time will come when you’re going to be numerous but your impact in the world will be like nothing.”

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128. “I am not a politician. I have often been approached in this regard, but I have always declined these sorts of offers. I view myself as an independent, critical intellectual, as someone who tries to stimulate thought on the left and the right, to encourage intellectual evolution.”

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129. “Feeling sympathy and searching for explanations isn’t the same as believing that the violence is justified.”

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130. “The Prophet’s life is an invitation to a spirituality that avoids no question and teaches us – in the course of events, trials, hardships, and our quest – that the true answers to existential questions are more often those given by the heart than by the intelligence. Deeply, simply: he who cannot love cannot understand.”

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131. “Muhammad particularly loved cats, but, more generally, he constantly made his Companions aware of the need to respect all animal species. He.”

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132. “This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to be, and start talking and working with whom you are not. Find common values and build with fellow citizens a society based on diversity and equality.”

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133. “The quest for meaning, which is always begun again by every human intellect, is to human consciousness what a fingerprint is to the body: shared by all, and unique to every individual. A universal singularity.”

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134. “Your country needs religious leaders and religious politicians.”

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135. “The old antiques dealer whispers to him that the secret of freedom and happiness lies in self-control and in a marriage between knowledge, will and power.”

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136. “Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.”

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137. “History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free.”

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138. “From Hinduism to the monotheisms through to Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, the common message is that we are all, naturally and potentially, inclined to reject the other, and to be intolerant and racist. Left to our own devices and our own emotions, we can be deaf, blind, dogmatic, closed and xenophobic: we are not born open-minded, respectful and pluralist. We become so through personal effort, education, self-mastery and knowledge.”

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139. “Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.”

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140. “Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.”

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141. “Spirituality means both accepting and mastering one’s instincts: living one’s natural desires in the light of one’s principles is a prayer. It is never a misdeed, nor is it hypocrisy.”

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142. “North-South imbalances and the exploitation of men and raw materials, combined with the resignation of the peoples of the North, produce a much more devastating violence than that of armed groups, even if the latter are spectacular.”

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143. “The ’fires’n that produce thick, rarely innocent, often strategic smoke should therefore be scrutinized. they should be known and identified; and when they involve dishonesty, lies, or manipulation, they they should be ignored.”

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144. “The strength of democratic societies relies on their capacity to know how to stand firm against extremism while respecting justice in the means used to fight terrorism.”

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145. “We have to watch the world, and watch ourselves, with the humility of those who know, in the very depths of their being, that learning to become human is a process that never ends.”

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146. “We are then content with some well-intended speeches, and as far as the rest is concerned we would have to rely on God. As if “reliance on God” means a lack of intelligence or competence in action; as if the Qur’anic Revelation has not distinguished between orientation and state, between where we should be and where we are; between the actualised foundation of a social project and the well-intended expression of its form.”

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147. “We need more citizens that are committed and courageous.”

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148. “Communion in faith, in the intimacy of meaning, cannot remain purely conceptual; it can maintain its vivifying energy only if it associates with communion in speech and action within a common space of social and cultural references. Faith needs culture.”

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