Tariq Ramadan Quotes

I can see both trends among the youths: people who are ready for a constructive, critical and active presence, and others who are ready to become invisible Muslims and to compromise to be accepted. I put my hope in the former and pray for the latter.

To be kind is good. To be kind without expecting anything in return is better.

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

This is the problem we have with many Muslim leaders: They claim to differentiate between domestic and foreign issues and they are obsessed with being accepted, at sitting at the table of power in order to talk (or rather to listen) and to be tolerated. This is the starting point of our weakness. It is in our minds because we do not realize we are part of the system.

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

Having traveled a lot and met people from different horizons it makes you more humble and ready to listen.

The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.

We are in a world that is connected, but is not communicating.

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

Behind every great man is not a woman, she is beside him, she is with him, not behind him

You can't say 'I don't do politics,' because silence is a political statement.

A true teacher doesn't teach you to think like him, but to think without him.

I don't like what you`re doing, but I won't insult you. Why? Because who you are tomorrow may be better than who I am today

Man is certainly free, but he is responsible for this freedom before God as before men. This responsibility is inevitably moral. In order of this morality, to be free is to protect the freedom of others and their dignities.

I am not a politician. I have often been approached in this regard, but I have always declined these sorts of offers. I view myself as an independent, critical intellectual, as someone who tries to stimulate thought on the left and the right, to encourage intellectual evolution.

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

To be courageous is to be a voice for the voiceless

If you want to have a good life, never forget that you are going to die

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

Our task is to change the world for the better, not to adapt ourselves to the world.

We integrate the good wherever we find it.

If you read the Qur'an with your head, you find repetition. If you read it with your heart, you find depth.

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.

Modesty is the way you deal with beauty not the way you avoid it.

Cherish your tears and their reasons, they will be the light of your smile, your inner peace and reconciliation.