Unless these unfortunates can be touched with the spark which ignites the spirit of individual enterprise and determination, they will only sink back into renewed apathy, degradation and despair. It is for us, who are more fortunate, to provide that spark.
AGA KHAN IVThese are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
More Aga Khan IV Quotes
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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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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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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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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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Nor do these two involve any contradiction, provided man remembers that his own mind is itself the creation of God. Without this humility, no balance is possible. With it, there are no barriers.
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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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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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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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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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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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There are many interpretations of Islam within the wider Islamic community, but generally we are instructed to leave the world a better place than it was when we came into it.
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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.
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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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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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