We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social, cultural, and….

There are some people who say that they’re concerned only with poverty but not inequality. But I don’t think that is a sustainable thought. A lot of ….

If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour based on sympathy is in an importan….

To conclude this discussion, assessment of justice demands engagement with the 'eyes of mankind',first, because we may variously identify with the ot….

I think that so many of our abilities to do things depend on interaction with each other..

The identity of just one thing, the "clash of civilization" view that you're a Muslim or a Hindu or a Buddhist or a Christian, I think that's such a ….

Globalization can be very unjust and unfair and unequal, but these are matters under our control. It’s not that we don’t need the market economy. We ….

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 ineq….

You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable..

Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms from opposition parti….

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy,….

Nearly everywhere Buddhism went, there had been a higher level of literacy, even in miserable Burma, not to mention Thailand and Sri Lanka..

Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems..

We might have reason to be driven! We live for a short stretch of time in a world we share with others. Virtually everything we do is dependent on ot….

80 percent of the export of armament in the world comes from the G8 countries. [The] United States alone exports about 50 percent of the world's arma….

I remain instinctively hostile to communitarian philosophy and communitarian politics..

No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor..

I was told Indian women don't think like that about equality. But I would like to argue that if they don't think like that they should be given a rea….

After all, the American society has been also based on the premise of expanding education very early. That's been [one] of the main sources of succes….

The fact that schools can actually be a major factor in cementing the world is a factor that's worth considering, the fact that we all have a shared ….

In absolutely every way, our lives are transformed by education and basic education in particular. So I would have thought that in any kind of system….