Tariq Ali Quotes

I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the 'religious pain' that is felt by believers of every cast when what they believe in is insulted.

Tariq Ali

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• If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

  

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• In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  

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• I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the 'religious pain' that is felt by believers of every cast when what they believe in is insulted.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Believe
  • Pain
  • Religious