Capability is just a concept of what is it we're looking at. Now how far we can go along that and what new capabilities become possible is something we have to judge.

When the government is trying to penny-pinch and, at the same time, trying to keep a defense expenditure and so forth, which are regarded as quote unquote essential, the education is regarded inessential.

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.

The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.

Opponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly.

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

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