Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty

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

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

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.

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

Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being

If you're dealing with grappling [with] problems of feeding people, the biggest impact in fertility reduction is girls' schools. Schooled girls make a bigger impact on that than any other factor - not these various regulations [such as] you have to have one child or that. It turns out that none of these are effective.