Ziauddin Sardar quotes

“The roots of our ecological crises are axiomatic: they lie in our belief and value structures which shape our relationship with nature, with each other and the lifestyles we lead.”
-- Ziauddin Sardar

Source : Ziauddin Sardar, Ehsan Masood (2006). “How do you know?: reading Ziauddin Sardar on Islam, science and cultural relations”, Pluto Pr

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“Arrogance is inimical to prudential reasoning, to accepting that for all we know and learn we also accumulate ignorance of the questions we do not ask, the risks we do not and cannot comprehend. In short, arrogance is what causes us to ignore our fallibilities.”
-- Ziauddin Sardar

Source : Ziauddin Sardar (2011). “Reading the Qur'an: The Contemporary Relevance of the Sacred Text of Islam”, p.103, Oxford University Press

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“I have multiple identities. I'm British. I'm Pakistani. I'm a Muslim. I'm a writer. I'm a father. And each identity has rich overtones. So I must be careful to look at your identity, and that of others, in the same way.”
-- Ziauddin Sardar

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“The parliament is the supreme decision-making and legislative body in any democracy. It reflects the collective desires of the citizens and makes laws.”
-- Ziauddin Sardar

Source : Source: secularpakistan.wordpress.com

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“The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence.”

“All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.”

“The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.”

“Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.”

“Obey God in all things today! Drive out the enemy! Lay the ax to the root of the tree, and the capacity for Jesus Christ will be increased tomorrow.”

“Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.”

Source : 'The Origins of the Second World War' (1961) ch. 10

“There are lots of reasons why a woman stays with a man, even when she's given up on changing him and can predict with certainty the shape that the rest of her life with him is going to take.”

Source : A.S.A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife”, p.117, Hachette UK

“I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time; no matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape, probably the least I would have devised, it came.”

“In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.”

“We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with accelerations and decelerations and so on. So all of us trained so that we were probably in the best physical condition we had ever been in up until that point.”