Remain Quotes by Abdolkarim Soroush

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

We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.

— Abdolkarim Soroush

Compromise has a negative connotation.

— Abdolkarim Soroush

People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.

— Abdolkarim Soroush

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

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

When I have an idea, I'm like a pregnant woman. I just have to deliver.

— Abdolkarim Soroush

Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.

— Abdolkarim Soroush

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

People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.

— Abdolkarim Soroush

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

God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.

— Abdolkarim Soroush