Tariq Ramadan Quotes
No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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I've learned that for Indian people, the opportunity for us to succeed is very slim. So acting was a great tool for that. And in the process of learning about my culture, I've learned how to connect myself again to my ancestors.
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I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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I envision the script as a story in my mind, memorize the entire thing and have it play out. It helps me figure out where my character needs to go.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
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I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.
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Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.
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Top knots are the easiest thing to create.
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A house is kind of scary.
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The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live. And most people are concerned about growing old rather than being effective.
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My ability to not be afraid to ask tough questions or to confront, that matters.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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Enron - although an extreme case - is hardly the only company with a hollow set of values.
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So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.
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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.
