We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
AGA KHAN IVIndeed, one strength of Islam has always lain in its belief that creation is not static but continuous, that through scientific and other endeavours.
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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 Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.
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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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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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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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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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 Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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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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One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress.
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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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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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