Tariq Ramadan Quotes

If you do your work, if you are committed at the grassroots level, if you have a vision for the long run (not only short-sighted interest), you can change public opinion.

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

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.

The Truth does not belong to you, you belong to the Truth.

Political confusion starts with terminology confusion.

Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.

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

Your sensitivity is power. Don't let people transform your qualities into weaknesses.

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

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

The more I know, the best I believe. The more I know, the best I'm worshiping Him. Because, in the end Allah knows the best.

What I'm advocating is an intellectual revolution - it's a different mindset concerning the ethical benchmarks by which we live.

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

I am talking about anything that is a provocation - ignore it. When something falls under freedom of expression, you can read it and take a critical distance.

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

Don't treat people the way they treat you. Treat them better.

To be courageous is to be a voice for the voiceless

Fear is created which can lead to racism. However, we can overcome that fear through trust.

Don’t nurture a sense of guilt; rather, nurture a sense of responsibility married with a sense of humility.

Nature is telling us that if you don't respect the environment then you are living with artificial needs and a consumerism that is destroying the very conditions we need to survive.

Teach the heart not to give way to proud emotions and arrogant thinking; bring the mind to heart-soothing solutions that make it possible to control oneself gently and wisely.

To be more precise, it's ethics and liberation, and as a consequence there is an ethics of liberation.

Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations.

A Muslim should be sincerely religious AND politically aware.

Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know

A time will come when you're going to be numerous but your impact in the world will be like nothing

Your country needs religious leaders and religious politicians

To have a moral sense is not to be dogmatic in dealing with rules. It can be an open way with dealing with questions of objectives and purpose, which is completely different.

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

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

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.

Islam has no problem with women, but Muslims do clearly appear to have serious problems with them

The media is putting a lot of emphasis on the few people that are destroying, while it won't report on the silent majority of people who are constructing, building and trying to find their way.

Proud to be a Muslim isn't a stamp you have on your heart, it's a light you have in your heart.

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

Life is not black and white when it comes to perception.

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

We have to reconcile ourselves with philosophical questions in every field. Every field should be open to inquiry and knowledge.

Islam is a religion of justice and dignity, and we are taught to never keep silent when facing injustice, discrimination and double standards.

Do not respond to attacks with attacks. Respond with Mercy & Respect

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

The universality of Islam is not uniformity, it is unity with diversity.

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.

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

Political rhetoric leads only to confusion.

The diversity is the risk of war, the necessity of diversity is mutual respect

Feeling sympathy and searching for explanations isn't the same as believing that the violence is justified.

You can be a very charitable capitalist. Like [Nicola] Sarkozy was saying, we have to 'moralise capitalism', which for me is a contradiction in terms.

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

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