--- title: "10 Has beens Quotes By Amartya Sen" description: "10 Has beens quotes by Amartya Sen. Plus more from Amartya Sen and more Has beens sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c21/amartya-sen-2518_commodity_i-don-t-think-that-india-is-much-celebra_616044.png" --- > [I don’t think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/i-don-t-think-that-india-is-much-celebrated-for-its-democracy/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c21/amartya-sen-2518_commodity_i-don-t-think-that-india-is-much-celebra_616044.png) > [Thailand's economic development was driven by educational expansion. That has been a very dramatic factor, and South Asia had been pretty miserable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/thailand-s-economic-development-was-driven-by-educational-expansion/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/555/amartya-sen-2518_asia_thailand-s-economic-development-was-driv_276721.png) > [I think in those countries, including my own in India, where I think primary education has been badly neglected by successive governments,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/i-think-in-those-countries-including-my-own-in-india-where-i-think/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18c/amartya-sen-2518_blame_i-think-in-those-countries-including-my_2140181.png) > [ \[The\] USA has been immensely successful in making the determination to deal with terrorism \[as\] a factor in the global world and,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/the-usa-has-been-immensely-successful-in-making-the-determination-to/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce4/amartya-sen-2518_deals_the-usa-has-been-immensely-successful-in_2642045.jpg) > [ In India, \[in\] the great documents like \[the\] Upanishads in eighth century B.C., you find some of the wisest \[women\] making great,… ](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2dd/amartya-sen-2518_able_in-india-in-the-great-documents-like-the_2479950.jpg) > [ After all, the American society has been also based on the premise of expanding education very early. That's been \[one\] of the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/after-all-the-american-society-has-been-also-based-on-the-premise-of/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e6d/amartya-sen-2518_american-public_after-all-the-american-society-has-been_2845497.png) > [The higher education has always appealed to the South Asian social leaders across all the countries in South Asia. But primary education…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/the-higher-education-has-always-appealed-to-the-south-asian-social/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af1/amartya-sen-2518_areas_the-higher-education-has-always-appealed_2649252.jpg) > [An Arab activist can take pride in the Arab heritage of mathematics and science or he can take pride in his religion,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/an-arab-activist-can-take-pride-in-the-arab-heritage-of-mathematics/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d68/amartya-sen-2518_activist_an-arab-activist-can-take-pride-in-the-a_1169056.png) > [I think the whole progress over the last two or three millennia has been entirely dependent on ideas and techniques and commodities…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efe/amartya-sen-2518_commodity_i-think-the-whole-progress-over-the-last_83998.png) > [South Korea at the end of the Second World War had a very low level of literacy. But suddenly, like in Japan,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/south-korea-at-the-end-of-the-second-world-war-had-a-very-low-level/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56a/amartya-sen-2518_ancient_south-korea-at-the-end-of-the-second-wor_1059450.jpg) ## Other authors on Has beens ## 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/has-beens/amartya-sen/#itemlist", "name": "10 Has beens Quotes By Amartya Sen", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I don’t think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. 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But suddenly, like in Japan, they determined they were going in that direction. In 20 years' time, they had transformed themselves. So when people go on saying that it's all because of perennial culture, which you cannot change, that's not the way the South Korean economy was viewed before the war ended. 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