You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another. — 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
There may be countries [where] there's no gender inequality in schooling, even in higher education, but [where there is] gender inequality in… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
There are some people who say that theyre concerned only with poverty but not inequality. But I dont think that is a… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Women had always been thought of as looking after the family when men go and earn an income and they're the bread… — 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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