Speeches

Mawlana Hazar Imam speaking at the opening ceremony of the Ismaili Centre Toronto and Aga Khan Museum.

Speech by His Highness the Aga Khan at the opening of the Aga Khan Museum and the Ismaili Centre, Toronto

12 September 2014

Mawlana Hazar Imam addresses the North-South Prize Ceremony in the Senate Hall of the Portuguese Parliament as His Excellency Aníbal Cavaco Silva, the President of Portugal and President of the Assembly of the Republic, Maria Assunção Esteves look on.

Remarks by His Highness the Aga Khan at the North-South Prize Ceremony, Portugal

11 June 2014

“At the very time that we talk more and more about global convergence, we also seem to experience more and more social divergence. The lesson it seems to me is that technologies alone will not save us-- the critical variable will always be and will always lie in the disposition of human hearts and minds.”

His Highness Aga Khan's keynote remarks at the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) Summit in Toronto

29 May 2014

The 88th Stephen Ogden Lecture delivered by His Highness the Aga Khan at Brown University

9 March 2014

“More information at our fingertips can mean more knowledge and understanding. But it can also mean more fleeting attention-spans, more impulsive judgments, and more dependence on superficial snapshots of events. Communicating more often and more easily can bring people closer together, but it can also tempt us to live more of our lives inside smaller information bubbles, in more intense but often more isolated groupings.”