No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor.

The anti-globalization movement is one of the biggest globalized events of the contemporary world, people coming from everywhere, —Australia, Indonesia, Britain, India, Poland, Germany, South Africa—to demonstrate in Seattle or Quebec. What could be more global than that?

While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.

It was incredible to me that members of one community could kill members of another not for anything personal that they did but simply based on their identity.

Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it.

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

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.