Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent

I have not had any serious non-academic job.

The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.

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.

Thailand's economic development was driven by educational expansion. That has been a very dramatic factor, and South Asia had been pretty miserable in not learning from that experience.

It was incredible to me that members of one community could kill members of another not for anything personal that they did but simply based on their identity.

Women had always been thought of as looking after the family when men go and earn an income and they're the bread earner and so on. So there is a kind of generation of inequality, [and], on top of the fact, women have pregnancies and periods, [and] when the children are very small, there are greater demands on their time. So one way or another women have had a pretty rough deal in the past, and there's no reason why that should continue, and any country that has tried to remedy that has succeeded in doing so.