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Criticizing to destroy is easy, thinking in order to build is much more difficult to achieve
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Tariq Ramadan
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 26
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Your sensitivity is power. Don't let people transform your qualities into weaknesses.
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A true teacher doesn't teach you to think like him, but to think without him.
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The Muslim contribution to the future of America is to not only speak out as Muslims, but to also speak out as citizens in the name of our common values. Our main contribution is to reconcile the American society with its own values, those that are not in contradiction to Islam. We have a duty of consistency.
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No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
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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.
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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.
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