Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.

we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have to make sure that sectarian schooling does not convert education into a prison, rather than being a passport to the wide world.

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

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty

The market economy succeeds not because some people's interests are suppressed and other people are kept out of the market, but because people gain individual advantage from it.

The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant ‘identity’ (‘this is your duty as an American’, ‘you must commit these acts as a Muslim’, or ‘as a Chinese you should give priority to this national engagement’) is not only an imposition of an external and arbitrary priority, but also the denial of an important liberty of a person who can decide on their respective loyalties to different groups (to all of which he or she belongs).

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