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.
AGA KHAN IVMy grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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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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Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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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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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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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 Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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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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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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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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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In Islamic belief, knowledge is two-fold. There is that revealed through the Holy Prophet (s.a.s.) and that which man discovers by virtue of his own intellect.
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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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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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