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

Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems.

A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.

You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable.

Education could be a great vehicle for gender equity. It allows people to see what your rights are by reading. Quite often women, for example, may have rights that they are not in the position to actually make use of.

But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also see that these ideas are not as culture-specific as is sometimes claimed. We need not begin with pessimism, at least on this ground, about the prospects of reasoned humanism in the world.

Human life depends not only on income but also on social opportunities, [for example] what the state does for educating.