Ziauddin Sardar quotes
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“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 SardarSource : 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 SardarSource : 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.”
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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 SardarSource : Source: secularpakistan.wordpress.com
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“All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.”
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“Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.”
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“Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.”
Source : 'The Origins of the Second World War' (1961) ch. 10
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Source : A.S.A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife”, p.117, Hachette UK
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“In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.”
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