"People first concern themselves with meeting their basic……" — Abdolkarim Soroush
"People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs."
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Abdolkarim Soroush
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23 Quotes by Abdolkarim Soroush
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In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other…
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We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what…
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In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.
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If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it…
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Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
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As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an…
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks…
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We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway,…
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One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful…
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Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of…
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The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests…
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you…
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God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so…
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
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The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
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Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
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Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
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During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards…
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