Democracy Is A Universal Value

Famines Are Easy To Prevent If There Is A Serious Effort To Do So, And A Democratic Government, Facing Elections And Criticisms From Opposition Parties And Independent Newspapers, Cannot Help But Make Such An Effort. Not Surprisingly, While India Continued To Have Famines Under British Rule Right Up To Independence... They Disappeared Suddenly With The Establishment Of A Multiparty Democracy And... A Free Press And An Active Political Opposition Constitute The Best Early-warning System A Country Threaten By Famines Can Have.

Human Ordeals Thrive On Ignorance. To Understand A Problem With Clarity Is Already Half Way Towards Solving It.

If A Theory Of Justice Is To Guide Reasoned Choice Of Policies, Strategies Or Institutions, Then The Identification Of Fully Just Social Arrangements Is Neither Necessary Nor Sufficient.

To Say That The Whole Of The Industrial Experience Of Europe And America Just Shows The Rewards Of Exploiting The Third World Is A Gross Simplification.

The Elimination Of Ignorance, Of Illiteracy... And Of Needless Inequalities In Opportunities (is) To Be Seen As Objectives That Are Valued For Their Own Sake. They Expand Our Freedom To Lead The Lives We Have Reason To Value, And These Elementary Capabilities Are Of Importance On Their Own