In other words, economic development should be judged and measured by the per capita real income of the bottom 50 per cent of the population. - Muhammad Yunus

You cannot change the world in a day...if you want to change, start from your village.

I believe that "government", as we know it today, should pull out of most things except for law enforcement and justice, national defense and foreign policy, and let the private sector, a "Grameenized private sector", a social-consciousness-driven private sector, take over their other functions.

Hungry people were everywhere. Often they sat so still that one could not be sure whether they were alive or dead. They all looked alike: men, women, children. Old people looked like children, and children looked like old people.