I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.

I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another.

The fact that schools can actually be a major factor in cementing the world is a factor that's worth considering, the fact that we all have a shared human identity in addition to many other identities.

We live in a world community, and economic contact has partly contributed to that. It’s also the case that economic opportunity opened up by economic contact has helped to a great extent to reduce poverty in many parts of the world.

We need to ask the moral questions: Do I have a right to be rich? And do I have a right to be content living in a world with so much poverty and inequality? These questions motivate us to view the issue of inequality as central to human living.

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

Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.