I Think The Un's Role - Especially

We Might Have Reason To Be Driven! We Live For A Short Stretch Of Time In A World We Share With Others. Virtually Everything We Do Is Dependent On Others, From The Arts And Culture To Farmers Who Grow The Food We Eat.

The Identity Of An Individual Is Essentially A Function Of Her Choices, Rather Than The Discovery Of An Immutable Attribute

When I Was Giving A Lecture In India, The Capabilities That I Have To Be Concerned With There, Namely The Ability Of People To Go To A School, To Be Literate, To Be Able To Have A Basic Health Care Everywhere, To Be Able To Seek Some Kind Of Medical Response To One's Ailment; These Become Central Issues In The Indian Context Which They're Not In The Uk, Because You're Well Beyond That.

If The Knowledge Of Torture Of Others Makes You Sick, It Is A Case Of Sympathy... It Can Be Argued That Behaviour Based On Sympathy Is In An Important Sense Egoistic, For One Is Oneself Pleased At Others' Pleasure And Pained At Others' Pain, And The Pursuit Of One's Own Utility May Thus Be Helped By Sympathetic Action.

Poverty Is Not Just A Lack Of Money; It Is Not Having The Capability To Realize One's Full Potential As A Human Being