Website: Wikiquote – Aga Khan IV

• A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
  • Princess Zahra quoting His Highness the Aga Khan in her acceptance speech upon receiving the World Habitat Award – Kazan, Russian Federation, October 4, 2006

• 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.
  • Address by His Highness the Aga Khan to the Tutzing Evangelical Academy Upon Receiving the “Tolerance” Award – Tutzing, Germany, May 20, 2006

• If we judge from Islamic history, there is much to encourage us. For century after century, the Arabs, the Persians, the Turks and many other Islamic societies achieved powerful leadership roles in the world—not only politically and economically but also intellectually… The fundamental reason for the pre-eminence of Islamic civilizations lay neither in accidents of history nor in acts of war, but rather in their ability to discover new knowledge, to make it their own, and to build constructively upon it. They became the Knowledge Societies of their time.
  • Address by His Highness the Aga Khan to the 2006 Convocation of the Aga Khan University – Karachi, Pakistan, December 2, 2006

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