At present, the developed countries condescend to the developing ones.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets ? A thief who was trying to reform would. To be conceited of doing one's duty is then a sign of how little one does it, and how little one sees what a contemptible thing it is not to do it. Could any but a low creature be conceited of not being contemptible? Until our duty becomes to us common as breathing, we are poor creatures.

A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to.

Increasingly, the Chinese will own a lot more of the world because they will be converting their dollar reserves and U.S. government bonds into real assets.