27 Quotes by Abdolkarim Soroush

Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.

It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.

People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.

We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.

When I have an idea, I'm like a pregnant woman. I just have to deliver.

One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.

As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.

Compromise has a negative connotation.

After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.