[Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.

It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality

Nearly everywhere Buddhism went, there had been a higher level of literacy, even in miserable Burma, not to mention Thailand and Sri Lanka.

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

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.

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.

Globalization is a complex issue, partly because economic globalization is only one part of it. Globalization is greater global closeness, and that is cultural, social, political, as well as economic.