“Homelands are as sacred as God, and the will of the people is also sacred”

“Why be miserable? After all, I am playing philosophy”

“Revolution and religion blend very well”

“I wish humans could live twice: once to write scholarly works, the second to dedicate to the public”

“Instead of Orientals being the passive objects of the Western gaze, we must study the West. The way Orientals saw it must be a subject for deep investigation. Occidentalism is the other side of Orientalism”

“An Islamic ideology capable of giving Muslims freedom, social justice and of interacting with other religions, cultures and ideologies”

“The choice between what we take and what we leave should emerge from a vision -- "an Islamic ideology capable of giving Muslims freedom, social justice and of interacting with other religions, cultures and ideologies.”