Tariq Ramadan Quotes About Dignity

Quotes about: Dignity

• 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.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Responsibility, Men, Order

  Tariq Ramadan (2009). “Islam, the West and the Challenges of Modernity”, p.144, Kube Publishing Ltd

• As Western Muslims and American Muslims, we need to understand that the values and principles we promote are not only Muslim values. American Muslims live in a country where justice, dignity, freedom and equality are essential values.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Country, Justice, Needs

  "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". The Islamic Monthly Interview, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.

• Politics is mainly about interests. As Muslim citizens, we understand these interests but we should put principles and dignity beyond everything.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Principles, Citizens, Dignity

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

• For Muslims, the source of everything we do is based in the belief that there is one God, and this one God is revealing to us there is one humanity with equal dignity for each, beyond faith, color and social status. Whatever your status, color, background or religion, you have the same dignity.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Color, Humanity, Belief

  "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". The Islamic Monthly Interview, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.

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

  Tariq Ramadan

  Justice, Islam, Double Standard

  "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". The Islamic Monthly Interview, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.

• There is dignity in your being even if there's indignity in what you're doing.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Dignity, Ifs, Indignity

• What we also need to have a discussion on the philosophy of art: so we must ask what is it that we want in the first place? Is it just about saying and doing whatever you want, or is it about something more? We should let the artist be free, but we must also question how exactly he deals with freedom. Is it arts for elevation or arts for destruction? Is there dignity in the process?

  Tariq Ramadan

  Art, Philosophy, Want

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

• We should not fool ourselves. When the Quran says wa la qad karamna Bani Adam ["we have honored the Children of Adam"] so yes we should all be free but this should not mean that we must act against the dignity of human beings.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Children, Mean, Quran

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

• If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that there was torture and pain in their work, but there was also dignity in the way that was dealt with. So I don't buy this contemporary notion that the only way to be artistic is to be arrogant, offensive or immoral.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Art, Pain, Past

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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