Ali Shariati quotes
-
“My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself choose my way”
-- Ali Shariati -
“For ruining a fact, do not attack it, defend it badly.”
-- Ali Shariati -
“I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents' prayers . Because they dance with love and passion . But my parents just say their prayers because they got used to it .”
-- Ali Shariati -
“The more man realises his humanity, the lonelier he feels.”
-- Ali Shariati -
-
“Hey, I am thinking of it myself, in this part of world (East), we all do endeavors in praying and are sweating (white liquid) and this is our situation, frustrated , but on the other part of world (West) ,they are enjoying in party and drinking liquor (white liquid) but their situation is that, successful, I do not know that the problem relates to the type of liquid or the way of drinking!!”
-- Ali Shariati -
“I'm amazed, that how salam (peace) is always the first word to start a meeting. but in prayer it is the end word. Maybe it means the end of prayer is the start of a meeting.”
-- Ali Shariati
-
“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.”
Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967
-
“War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.”
You may also like:
-
Abdolkarim Soroush
Critic -
Ahmad Shamloo
Poet -
Ali Khamenei
Supreme Leader of Iran -
Frantz Fanon
Psychiatrist -
Ibn Khaldun
Historian -
Muhammad Asad
Journalist -
Ruhollah Khomeini
Former Supreme Leader of Iran -
Saadi
Poet -
Sadegh Hedayat
Writer -
Sayyid Qutb
Author -
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Professor