A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
AGA KHAN IVMy grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
More Aga Khan IV Quotes
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Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
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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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Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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We try to avoid the single-building syndrome. You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn’t work. You have to do it all together.
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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity.
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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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Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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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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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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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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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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he two worlds, Muslim and non-Muslim, Eastern and Western, must, as a matter of urgency, make a real effort to get to know one another, for I fear that what we have is not a clash of civilisations, but a clash of ignorance on both sides.
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