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 armament, [for] which, of course, there has to be buyers, and the buyers are very terribly keen, very often military dictator[s] or sometimes not military dictator[s] but for military purposes. But the sellers are also promoting this trade. And two thirds of the arm exports go to developing countries. I'm in favor of putting a control on it, a ban on it.
Amartya SenThere are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.
Amartya SenHuman life depends not only on income but also on social opportunities, [for example] what the state does for educating.
Amartya Sen