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> [ In India, \[in\] the great documents like \[the\] Upanishads in eighth century B.C., you find some of the wisest \[women\] making great, learned speeches and then you worship them, but actually don't do very much about girls' education generally. So… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/in-india-in-the-great-documents-like-the-upanishads-in-eighth-century/)

[Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/)

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> [Your voice is much more articulate and people listen to you if you've been to school. In family decisions, not surprisingly, the biggest impact in reducing fertility is girls' education.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/your-voice-is-much-more-articulate-and-people-listen-to-you-if-you-ve/)

[Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/)

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## 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/)

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