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.
AGA KHAN IVInnumerable 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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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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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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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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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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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.
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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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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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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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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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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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Indeed, 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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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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