Words matter. These are the best Abdolkarim Soroush Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.
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.
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.
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.
Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
There are all sorts of cries that the leaders of the Green Movement should submit themselves to the supreme leader, but that won’t take place. Both sides have to be prepared for a serious negotiation.
Compromise has a negative connotation.
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.
