Human Life Consists Of Doing Certain Things

We Need To Ask The Moral Questions: Do I Have A Right To Be Rich? And Do I Have A Right To Be Content Living In A World With So Much Poverty And Inequality? These Questions Motivate Us To View The Issue Of Inequality As Central To Human Living.

I Remain Instinctively Hostile To Communitarian Philosophy And Communitarian Politics.

80 Percent Of The Export Of Armament In The World Comes From The G8 Countries. [the] United States Alone Exports About 50 Percent Of The World's Armament, [for] Which, Of Course, There Has To Be Buyers, And The Buyers Are Very Terribly Keen, Very Often Military Dictator[s] Or Sometimes Not Military Dictator[s] But For Military Purposes. But The Sellers Are Also Promoting This Trade. And Two Thirds Of The Arm Exports Go To Developing Countries. I'm In Favor Of Putting A Control On It, A Ban On It.

The Identity Of Just One Thing, The "clash Of Civilization" View That You're A Muslim Or A Hindu Or A Buddhist Or A Christian, I Think That's Such A Limited Way Of Seeing Humanity, And Schools Have The Opportunity To Bring Out The Fact That We Have Hundreds Of Identities. We Have Our National Identity. We Have Our Cultural Identity, Linguistic Identity, Religious Identity. Yes, Cultural Identity, Professional Identity, All Kinds Of Ways.

I Think East Asian Countries, I Think They're Very Fortunate To Have Buddhism Survive As A Strong Influence Because Right From The Time When Buddha Himself, 2,500 Years Ago, Made The Point About The Importance Of Education, And The Word "buddha" Also Means Enlighten[ed] Or Educated. So All The Buddhist Countries, Not Only Japan And Korea And China And Hong Kong And Thailand But Also Even Burma And Sri Lanka, Had A Higher Level Of Education.