Quotes from Aga Khan IV

Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development; it is vital to our existence.

A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.

The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.

Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God's creation.

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.

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.

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.

My duties are wider than those of the Pope. The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.

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.

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.

If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn't work. You have to do it all together.

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.