I'm very skeptical of the amount of money that goes into military expenditure, not just in the poor countries [but] also in the rich. I think it's one of the most massive wastes in the world, but education is [at the] other end. It's the bearer of the greatest fruits that mankind has ever known.

Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.

It’s scandalous when one thinks about the people who live in a world in which they need not be hungry, in which they need not die without medical care, in which they need not be illiterate, they need not feel hopeless and miserable so much of the time, and yet they are.

[N]o democracy with a free press has ever experienced a major famine.

The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.

Capability is just a concept of what is it we're looking at. Now how far we can go along that and what new capabilities become possible is something we have to judge.

I really do believe that education, despite this massive potential in transforming human lives, has not received the kind of attention that people should have given to it.