This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
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.
More Aga Khan IV Quotes
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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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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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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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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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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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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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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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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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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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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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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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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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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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