Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan famous quotes

As the dolphin becomes just another victim of humanity's utilitarian attitudes towards the earth, it seems as though the ancient friendship between our respective species is no longer entirely reciprocal. Such exploitation is nowhere more evident than in the capture and display of cetaceans for profit. Stripped of their natural identity, deprived of their own culture and environment, the dolphin and whale incarcerated within the oceanarium not only symbolizes an abuse of that ancient relationship, but above all our estrangement from nature as a whole.
-- Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

#Attitude #Whales #Humanity

The success of any development project is based on encouraging people to shoulder their own responsibilities and become aware of their own capacities, their rights too, rather than providing them with ready-made solutions.
-- Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

#Responsibility #Rights #People

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

#People #Important #Capacity

We need nature more than nature needs us.
-- Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

#Nature #Needs

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

#Humility #Wish #Littles

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 air-conditioned houses to teach people in the Third World how to improve their living conditions.
-- Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

#Beautiful #Thinking #Air

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 global in character. At the risk of stating the obvious, I would say that when governments realize that certain problems are beyond their powers, it is clear that the United Nations has an irreplaceable role to play.
-- Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

#Character #Play #Government

The world is changing considerably and the United Nations must change too. It must become an instrument which responds to the needs of the international community of the year 2000, which will be quite different from that of 1945.
-- Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

#Years #Community #Different

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 him what crops to grow or what seeds to use. Give him the seeds he asks for, and he will do the rest. Don't tell him how to renovate his irrigation system: give him the necessary equipment and he will do the job far better than us.
-- Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

#Country #Jobs #Giving

If you change your attitude you will change how you see the world and discover the potential it has simply through opening up your eyes to C Differently

This is advice I would give to any young actor - if you go into a room with anybody and you come in with a positive attitude and a place of love, and you truly do love what you're doing, then the negative energy doesn't even get into the room. You just have to prepare, and then go in and be the best you that you can be, and you'll either get the job or you won't.

...is it surprising that today we have become so morally blind (for wickedness blinds) that we save the baby whales at great cost, and murder millions of unborn children?

There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom living; there are the hosts of different invertebrate creatures on the sea-floor; and there are those almost grotesque forms of pelagic life in the oceans depths. Then there are the squids and cuttlefish, and the porpoises, dolphins and great whales.

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.

I live on the beautiful Northern California coast. I have always loved hiking, whale watching and being outdoors.

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

No religion is higher than humanity

We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often is lost or buried or inhibited as the person gets enculturated.

We will not be silent. We will not obey. We will not allow our government to destroy our humanity.