Tariq Ramadan Quotes About Ethics

Quotes about: Ethics

• We need to challenge the dominant culture: by ethics, principles and values.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Challenges, Principles, Needs

• I focus on Islamic applied ethics in many fields, and here I am saying that coming back to the Qu'ran and the sunnah as our reference point does not mean that we depend for our ethics on 'Islam as opposed to the others'.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Islamic, Mean, Here I Am

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• To be more precise, it's ethics and liberation, and as a consequence there is an ethics of liberation.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Ethics, Liberation, Precise

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

• Because ethics is fundamentally about questioning the ends, the goals and aims of our actions, we must come back to the rules and ask why. So we must return to the philosophy of law, the raison d'etre and the point of what we're asked to do. It's not easy, it's very demanding and it needs intellectual courage.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Philosophy, Law, Goal

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

• I'm working on different fields. One of my next books Insha'Allah will be a novel because it's important to explore the heart and imagination, the spiritual side. I've been working for twenty five years in the legal field and now I'm reaching what I want, which is an Islamic applied ethics and I'm also dealing with Muslims in the West.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Spiritual, Islamic, Book

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

• I wanted to understand. I'm not here to support one, but I am here to criticize all, on a principled position. I very much value the position of counter power. I think this is where ethics should be, in front of power as I said in Radical Reform. The power of counter-power is very important.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Thinking, Support, Important

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• I look to Islamic ethics to find something that can provide the basis for shared values with other traditions, and ultimately universal values. This ties into the point I made in a book, 'The Quest for Meaning', that the only way for values to be universal is if they are shared universal values. My main point is, in this quest for value the aim is not to express your distinctness from others, but about being able to contribute to the discussion of universal value.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Book, Islamic, Ties

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

• As Muslims, we are all equals, we abide by the laws and we understand that we have to be active citizens wherever we are. Our goals are first to live by our principles, to remind people of these values, to reconcile our respective societies with these shared universal values and to try our best to push for a spiritual agenda with more ethics in society, in politics, in economics, and in culture.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Spiritual, Law, People

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