If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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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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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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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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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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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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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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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West.
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