Top 34 Aga Khan Quotes
#1. We can best honor the memories of those who were killed on September 11 and those who have been killed fighting the war on terrorism, by dedicating ourselves to building a free and peaceful world safe from the threat of terrorism.
Jack Reed
#2. When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived by the Tao can you be truly yourself.
Laozi
#3. A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
Aga Khan IV
#5. 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
#6. Life is a great and noble calling, not a mean and grovelling thing to be shuffled through as best as we can but a lofty and exalted destiny.
Aga Khan III
#7. But if a person hasn't ever experienced true despair, she grows old never knowing how to evaluate where she is in life; never understanding what joy really is. I'm grateful for it.
Banana Yoshimoto
#8. You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
Aga Khan IV
#9. 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
#10. The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity - these are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
Aga Khan IV
#11. If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope. 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
#12. My duties are wider than those of the Pope. The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
Aga Khan IV
#13. 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.
Aga Khan IV
#14. Everybody makes mistakes. Never regret them, correct them. There's no such thing as a perfect world or perfect life.
His Highness The Aga Khan
#15. 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
#17. When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.
Barbet Schroeder
#18. 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
#19. We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity
Aga Khan IV
#20. Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
Aga Khan IV
#21. The Aga Khan Awards for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms. This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
Aga Khan IV
#22. 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
#23. Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.
Aga Khan III
#24. The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
Aga Khan IV
#25. There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
Aga Khan IV
#26. Wars are to be won with swords and spears, not with rice and salt.
Uesugi Kenshin
#27. My father insisted that I learnt the Koran and encouraged me to understand the basic traditions and beliefs of Islam but without imposing any particular views. He was an overwhelming personality but open-minded and liberal.
Aga Khan III
#28. Elgar is not manic enough to be Russian, not witty or pointilliste enough to be French, not harmonically simple enough to be Italian and not stodgy enough to be German. We arrive at his Englishry by pure elimination.
Anthony Burgess
#29. Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind ... That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
Aga Khan IV
#30. 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.
Aga Khan IV
#31. Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God's creation.
Aga Khan IV
#32. The first time we all played as a band, I think it was in January 1998, in Jonny's bedroom.
Will Champion
#33. Happiness is never a negative affair; it is to be won by men who are fully alive, full of the joy of living
Aga Khan III
#34. 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