black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Related Topics

Apathy Degradation Determination Enterprise Ignite Individual Renewed Spark Spirit Touch Touched Unfortunate

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Indeed, one strength of Islam has always lain in its belief that creation is not static but continuous, that through scientific and other endeavours.
AGA KHAN IV

Continous Creation Endeavor Lain Marvel Open Scientific Strength Window
None of these situations are identical. You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another.
AGA KHAN IV

Another Apply Country Identical Issue One Religious Set Take
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 IV

Ethical Greed Long Money Nothing Object Own Social Value
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.
AGA KHAN IV

Commitment Country Diversity Multicultural People Pluralism Rest Riches Support World Year
My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
AGA KHAN IV

Amongst Art Book Gifted Grandfather Many Past Person Qualities
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 IV

Communities Community Confident Depth Educated Identity Neighbour Pluralistic Require Society Tradition
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.
AGA KHAN IV

Balance Barrier Contradiction Creation God Humanity Possible Provide Remember
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.
AGA KHAN IV

Capacity Ethics Fortune God Good Individual Islamic Privileged Responsibility Society
Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples’ cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.
AGA KHAN IV

Culture Faith Openness Social Structure Survival Tolerance Understanding Value
They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
AGA KHAN IV

Composition Different Involved Population Religious Term
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 IV

Common Conflict Contribution Dissension Ethnic Failure Harmonious Increasing Man Religious Signifamnt Social World
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.
AGA KHAN IV

Certain Developing Fear Hope Lesson Most Power Probably Replacement Single Trampoline Working
A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
AGA KHAN IV

Better Bridge Future Home Hunger Poverty Proper Provide
This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
AGA KHAN IV

Bring Building Context Environment Future Generation Mean Quality Trying
That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
AGA KHAN IV

Amazing Asset Canada Global Human Something Unique
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.
AGA KHAN IV

Avoid Big Building Cultural Development Economic Look Picture Single Social Syndrome Together Trying

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes