“Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticism from opposition parties and independent newspapers, cannot help but make such an effort. No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.”
英语
“如果真有诚意去防止饥荒，它是容易防止的。面临选举以及来自反对党和独立报纸的批评的民主政府，不可能不做出这样的努力。在世界历史上，从未有一个正常运转的民主国家发生过饥荒。”
“Development consists of the removal of various types of unfreedoms that leave people with little choice and little opportunity of exercising their reasoned agency.”
英语
“发展就是消除各种不自由——这些不自由使人们几乎没有选择，也几乎没有机会去行使其理性的能动性。”
“The income-centred view of poverty is seriously flawed. What matters is not income itself but the capabilities that income makes possible — and these vary enormously depending on personal circumstances, social conditions, and natural environment.”
英语
“以收入为中心的贫困观是有严重缺陷的。重要的不是收入本身，而是收入所能实现的能力——而这些能力因个人境遇、社会条件和自然环境的不同而差异巨大。”
“The central issue is not the old theme of having or not having markets. It is rather what institutions and arrangements can most effectively serve the aspirations and rights of the deprived.”
英语
“核心问题不是要不要市场这个老话题，而是什么样的制度和安排能够最有效地服务于弱势群体的诉求和权利。”
“Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being.”
英语
“贫困不仅仅是缺钱，更是缺乏作为人实现自身全部潜能的能力。”
“The freedom to live the way one would like is, it can be argued, deeply enriched by the ability to scrutinize and choose in an informed way.”
英语
“按自己意愿生活的自由，可以说，因具备知情审视和选择的能力而得到深刻的丰富。”
“Justice is not merely about trying to achieve — or dreaming about achieving — some perfectly just society or institution, but about preventing manifestly severe injustice.”
英语
“正义不仅仅在于试图实现——或梦想实现——某种完美公正的社会或制度，更在于防止明显严重的不正义。”