If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
AGA KHAN IVIslam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of civil society in recognizing and celebrating the diversity of the world’s peoples.
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Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples’ cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.
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None of these situations are identical. You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another.
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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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It is a world of increasing dissension and conflict in which a significant contribution is the failure of different ethnic, tribal, religious, or social groups to search for, and agree upon, a common space for harmonious co-existence.
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While the past was a book he had read and re-read may times, the future was just one more literary work of art into which he used to pour himself with deep thought and concentration.
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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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Innumerable people since his death have told me how he used to read in the future, and this certainly was one of his very great strengths.
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Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one’s own greed.
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The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West.
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There are those… who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot.
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