--- title: "6 Capability Quotes By Amartya Sen" description: "6 Capability quotes by Amartya Sen. Plus more from Amartya Sen and more Capability sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c5/amartya-sen-2518_capabilities_capability-is-just-a-concept-of-what-is_121.png" --- > [Capability is just a concept of what is it we're looking at. Now how far we can go along that and what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/capability-is-just-a-concept-of-what-is-it-we-re-looking-at-now-how/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c5/amartya-sen-2518_capabilities_capability-is-just-a-concept-of-what-is_121.png) > [Opportunity could be defined in so many ways. There's one way of defining it, equality of opportunity, which is in fact the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/opportunity-could-be-defined-in-so-many-ways-there-s-one-way-of/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/330/amartya-sen-2518_astronaut_opportunity-could-be-defined-in-so-many_766512.jpg) > [The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/the-elimination-of-ignorance-of-illiteracy-and-of-needless/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46f/amartya-sen-2518_capability_the-elimination-of-ignorance-of-illitera_1355490.png) > [There are some people who say that they’re concerned only with poverty but not inequality. But I don’t think that is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/there-are-some-people-who-say-that-they-re-concerned-only-with/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/888/amartya-sen-2518_adequate_there-are-some-people-who-say-that-they_2285722.png) > [When I was giving a lecture in India, the capabilities that I have to be concerned with there, namely the ability of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/when-i-was-giving-a-lecture-in-india-the-capabilities-that-i-have-to/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f8/amartya-sen-2518_ability_when-i-was-giving-a-lecture-in-india-the_2819287.jpg) > [Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/poverty-is-not-just-a-lack-of-money-it-is-not-having-the-capability/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a94/amartya-sen-2518_capability_poverty-is-not-just-a-lack-of-money-it-i_3007240.png) ## Other authors on Capability ## More by Amartya Sen > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/capability-is-just-a-concept-of-what-is-it-we-re-looking-at-now-how/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/human-life-consists-of-doing-certain-things-to-take-part-in-the-life/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/where-the-mind-is-without-fear-and-the-head-is-held-high-where/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/violence-is-fomented-by-the-imposition-of-singular-and-belligerent/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [I think the whole progress over the last two or three millennia has been entirely dependent on ideas and techniques and commodities and people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/i-think-the-whole-progress-over-the-last-two-or-three-millennia-has/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/no-famine-has-ever-taken-place-in-the-history-of-the-world-in-a/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [To say that certainly America was very lucky to get a large amount of land, and the native Indians were extremely unlucky to have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/to-say-that-certainly-america-was-very-lucky-to-get-a-large-amount-of/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/the-lack-of-economic-freedom-could-be-a-very-major-reason-for-loss-of/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [We need to ask the moral questions: Do I have a right to be rich? And do I have a right to be content…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/we-need-to-ask-the-moral-questions-do-i-have-a-right-to-be-rich-and/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/he-wrote-extensively-on-how-schools-should-be-made-more-attractive-to/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [One has to be realistic. One’s concern for equity and justice in the world must not carry one into the alien territory of unreasoned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/one-has-to-be-realistic-one-s-concern-for-equity-and-justice-in-the/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/while-i-am-interested-both-in-economics-and-in-philosophy-the-union/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/i-was-born-in-a-university-campus-and-seem-to-have-lived-all-my-life/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [If jobs are important, education is important.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/if-jobs-are-important-education-is-important/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/thailand-s-economic-development-was-driven-by-educational-expansion/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/capability/amartya-sen/#itemlist", "name": "6 Capability Quotes By Amartya Sen", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Capability is just a concept of what is it we're looking at. 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