Domestic power structures are shaped in good part by global arrangements.

It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled by obvious thugs and crooks.

Income inequality matters more on a day-to-day basis. Wealth matters more for political influence.

Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute.

Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status quo.

We live in a world where economic positions - income and wealth - are very unevenly distributed, and this leads to the widespread persistence of poverty.

Large companies are very good at solving extremely complex problems in a globally optimal way.

The Bank and the media continue to propagate the story that the global elite wishes to be told: that the number of poor has declined by 24 percent in those 15 years [1990-2005].

The collective income of all these people - the bottom half - is less than three percent of global household income, and so there is a grotesque maldistribution of income and wealth.

What is really nice about the Health Impact Fund is that it is a win-win, something that without much cost to anyone makes a lot of people better off.

It is for the poor people's sake, above all, that we urgently need more unity and better organization and need to concentrate our reform efforts in order to really to achieve reforms, one by one.

If you live your life to please others, sometimes you neglect yourself. You deserve happiness. You deserve peace. You deserve love and respect. Don't get caught up and deprive the very essence of you

Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization.

I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.

The reason one enters into lower mental states is because you don't have the power or chi flowing through you.

Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

President Obama's made the White House really the people's house. People feel like they're welcome.

We live thinking we will never die, We die thinking we have never lived

By the way, I'm funniest when I'm not being funny. I'm better to laugh at than with, pretty much.

The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.

Guessing right for the wrong reason does not merit scientific immortality.