I think education has a bigger impact on the lives of people than absolutely anything else.

It’s very easy to capture pictures of jubilant people in the street after the nuclear bomb. But there were no pictures of morose people sitting in their kitchens and living rooms.

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.

Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.

Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.

I think gender inequality is a problem that goes back a long, long time. In human society, as a whole, women have tended to have a kind of inferior position - very often combined with playing up women as great role [models].

I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another.