Author: Abdolkarim Soroush

Quotes

Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.

Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.

- Abdolkarim Soroush

The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.

The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.

- 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.

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

It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.

It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.

- Abdolkarim Soroush

Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.

Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.

- Abdolkarim Soroush

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