black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Tariq Ramadan

We cannot have a free market since it does not really set us free. It’s free for interest, speculation and consumerism to create false needs.
TARIQ RAMADAN

Consumerism Doe Needs
If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it.
TARIQ RAMADAN

Fire Lit Quite Say Should
Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
TARIQ RAMADAN

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

Beautiful Emotion Speak
I am too old to think that numbers are creating change
TARIQ RAMADAN

Create Numbers Think
For me I made it clear that I wanted to meet with both sides of the political spectrum.
TARIQ RAMADAN

Made Political Side Spectrum
Islam, as a religion, has been established in France for a long time, and the religious question has been resolved in this country. Islam does not threaten France’s future in any way.
TARIQ RAMADAN

Country Long Religious
Having traveled a lot and met people from different horizons it makes you more humble and ready to listen.
TARIQ RAMADAN

Different Humble People
There is the philosophy embedded in the culture we are living. It is quite clear for example that Arabs have a different culture than Malaysians.
TARIQ RAMADAN

Different Example Philosophy
Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know
TARIQ RAMADAN

Humility Intellectual Modesty
Islam can only be modernized from within. If I state that I condemn the practice of stoning, that this punishment is despicable, it changes nothing. My fellow Muslims will say: Brother Tariq, you became a European, a Swiss citizen, so you are no longer one of us.
TARIQ RAMADAN

Brother Practice Punishment
We must re-center philosophy within our frame of reference which I think is the way to deal with it.
TARIQ RAMADAN

Philosophy Think Way
Acknowledged differences may create mutual respect, but hazy misunderstandings bring forth nothing but prejudice and rejection.
TARIQ RAMADAN

Difference Prejudice Rejection
If you look at how we are destroying and disrespecting Creation it is obvious that is something is not clear in our understanding. We overemphasize rules but we don’t understand the objective.
TARIQ RAMADAN

Creation Look Understanding
Political rhetoric leads only to confusion.
TARIQ RAMADAN

Confusion Political Rhetoric
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.
TARIQ RAMADAN

Adversity Exercise Men

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Tariq Ramadan Quotes