Abdolkarim Soroush

The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.

Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.

Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.

Every Democrat on Capitol Hill professes to be a fiscal hawk.

Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.