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born 1955 Italy
Massimo Introvigne (born June 14, 1955) is an Italian sociologist of religions. He is the founder and managing director of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), an international network of scholars who study new religious movements.
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Sometimes, friendship may change the world.
A world with no place for God is dark, empty without hope.
While millions around the world practice yoga for health and peace of mind, Russian anti-cultists see only a sinister plot.
Sometimes, the path to freedom is best understood from the ground up.
When [the] law becomes optional, justice becomes elusive.
The world must not mistake persecution for prosecution.
Justice is never one-dimensional. It is a tapestry woven from respect for nature, cultures, and the dignity of every being.
When scholars abandon rigor for rhetoric, they do more than misinform—they become complicit in injustice.
In the moral architecture of democracy, no stone is more foundational than the conscience of its citizens.
Not all defamation is art; some is incitement.
Only those who recognize the central role of conscience can build a civilization of peace and love.
Corruption destroys fraternity and peace, tries to manipulate the consciences through slander and fake news, and produces injustices.
Only those who are firmly rooted in conscience as their moral compass may calmly tell the truth about injustice and corruption, no matter the risks.
Social justice without [civil or natural] rights is [maliciously] ideological and false.
Everywhere in the world, young men and women like what is forbidden.
Manipulating the public in the interest of the private is the very definition of corruption.
The lesson of Rwanda is not that every moral panic leads to genocide. It is that every genocide begins with a moral panic.
When conscience is no longer the compass, corruption prevails.
Kim Dae Jung showed[,] that true leadership lies in compassion, not [in] coercion.
Paraphrasing [Carl von] Clausewitz, it seems that in Pakistan cricket is now becoming [Islamic] religious propaganda by other means.
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