A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.

Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects that interest me and there freedom of speech comes into it.

No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.

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

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

But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.

Ultimately, imperialism made even the British working classes suffer. This is a point which the British working classes found quite difficult to swallow, but they did, actually.