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 become possible is something we have to judge. — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
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 Image
No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
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 Image
The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life. — 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 be content… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
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 Image
