Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies. — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and… — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue… — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now… — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise. — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs. — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner. — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals. — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
When I have an idea, I'm like a pregnant woman. I just have to deliver. — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere. — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are… — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
People should know what they want, not just what they don't want. — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came… — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era. — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
