Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Education can really transform the insecurities in the world into a bigger vision of what we are as human beings. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Being able to read, write, do your sums really transforms a human being. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Human life depends not only on income but also on social opportunities, [for example] what the state does for educating. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I think gender inequality is a problem that goes back a long, long time. In human society, as a whole, women have… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
We need to ask the moral questions: Do I have a right to be rich? And do I have a right to… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The fact that schools can actually be a major factor in cementing the world is a factor that's worth considering, the fact… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I really do believe that education, despite this massive potential in transforming human lives, has not received the kind of attention that… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Education makes human beings more articulate. It transforms people. You can think differently about the world. It makes it possible for you… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The notion of human right builds on our shared humanity. These rights are not derived from the citizenship of any country, or… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Education makes us the human beings we are. It has major impacts on economic development, on social equity, gender equity. In all… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Each human being is a citizen of the world. We have many identities, of which one of the identities is our human… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Capability is just a concept of what is it we're looking at. Now how far we can go along that and what new capabilities… — Amartya Sen Copy Share
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share
“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up… — Amartya Sen Copy Share
Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror. — Amartya Sen Copy Share
I think the whole progress over the last two or three millennia has been entirely dependent on ideas and techniques and commodities and people… — Amartya Sen Copy Share
No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy. — Amartya Sen Copy Share
To say that certainly America was very lucky to get a large amount of land, and the native Indians were extremely unlucky to have… — Amartya Sen Copy Share
The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life. — Amartya Sen Copy Share
We need to ask the moral questions: Do I have a right to be rich? And do I have a right to be content… — Amartya Sen Copy Share
“He wrote extensively on how schools should be made more attractive to boys and girls and thus more productive. His own co-educational school at… — Amartya Sen Copy Share
One has to be realistic. Ones concern for equity and justice in the world must not carry one into the alien territory of unreasoned… — Amartya Sen Copy Share
While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection. — Amartya Sen Copy Share
I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another. — Amartya Sen Copy Share
Thailand's economic development was driven by educational expansion. That has been a very dramatic factor, and South Asia had been pretty miserable in not… — Amartya Sen Copy Share
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