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

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

China had managed to reduce their fertility to a large extent because of basic expansion of women's education, not because of the one-child family.

I don’t think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad.

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

If jobs are important, education is important.

In absolutely every way, our lives are transformed by education and basic education in particular. So I would have thought that in any kind of system, to say that the priorities don't include education is a mistake, whether it's [at the] domestic level or at the global level.