Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver – the teachers, the parents, the friends.
I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another.
Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent.
We need to ask the moral questions: Do I have a right to be rich? And do I have a right to be content living in a world with so much poverty and inequality? These questions motivate us to view the issue of inequality as central to human living.
Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.
The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.
A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.
There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.
Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.
Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty.
Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.
Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.
Globalization is a complex issue, partly because economic globalization is only one part of it. Globalization is greater global closeness, and that is cultural, social, political, as well as economic.
Development requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities as well as intolerance or overactivity of repressive states.
Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that shape human behaviour and judgment.
You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable.
The best hope for peace in the world lies in the simple but far-reaching recognition that we all have many different associations and affiliations, and we need not see ourselves as being rigidly divided by a single categorization of hardened groups, which confront each other.
A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.
Anything that increases the voice of young women tends therefore to reduce the fertility rate.
Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.