Let us show great humility towards the peoples we wish to help, for we have very little to teach them.

- Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

The success of any development project is based on encouraging people to shoulder their own responsibilities and become aware of their own capacities…

- Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

I think we go wrong when we insist, as some have done since 1945, on using experts who are paid Western salaries, drive beautiful cars and live in ai…

- Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

Who knows better than a peasant farmer the agricultural conditions in his country or region? It is not always necessary to send an FAO expert to tell…

- Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

The world is changing considerably and the United Nations must change too. It must become an instrument which responds to the needs of the internatio…

- Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

We need nature more than nature needs us.

- Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

As the dolphin becomes just another victim of humanity's utilitarian attitudes towards the earth, it seems as though the ancient friendship between o…

- Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

It is now widely and rightly accepted that we live in a world which is more interdependent than ever before, and that problems are increasingly globa…

- Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

In the corridors of diplomacy people  gradually tend to lose their capacity to distinguish between what is important and what isn't.

- Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan