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.
AGA KHAN IVThis means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
More Aga Khan IV Quotes
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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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God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation
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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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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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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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Canada has for many years been a beacon to the rest of the world for its commitment to pluralism and for its support for the multicultural richness and diversity of its peoples.
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While the past was a book he had read and re-read may times, the future was just one more literary work of art into which he used to pour himself with deep thought and concentration.
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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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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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Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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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 proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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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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