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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
— Abdolkarim Soroush
Tags: first, meeting, only, people

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When I have an idea, I'm like a pregnant woman. I just have to deliver.
— Abdolkarim Soroush
Tags: idea, just, like, woman
Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
— Abdolkarim Soroush
Tags: concept, thing, been, energy
Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the state, division of powers, and the doctrine of checks and balances are established in order to prevent accumulation of power that might lead to such Godly claims.
— Abdolkarim Soroush
Tags: power, character, religion, politics
If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
— Abdolkarim Soroush
Tags: want, identity, will, people
We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
— Abdolkarim Soroush
Tags: forget, reality, society, nature
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