354 Quotes by Tariq Ramadan

When you’re overwhelmed by your emotion, you listen less and you judge more. This is also the reality of the dogmatic mind.

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

Deeply, simply: he who cannot love cannot understand.

The Islamic world is obsessed with the notion of strong leaders. This is a mistake. We don’t need powerful leaders, but rather unconventional, progressive thinkers with the courage to open our minds.

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

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

You’re a man, but the day you raise your voice to your mother, you’re not anymore.

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

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.