Identity Quotes by Amartya Sen

9 Identity quotes by Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen brings economic and ethical analysis to the question of self. These nine short insights explore how capability and justice intersect with identity.

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There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.

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the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute

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Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.

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It was incredible to me that members of one community could kill members of another not for anything personal that they did…

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The fact that schools can actually be a major factor in cementing the world is a factor that's worth considering, the fact…

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Each human being is a citizen of the world. We have many identities, of which one of the identities is our human…

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The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant ‘identity’ (‘this is your duty as an American’, ‘you must commit…

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The identity of just one thing, the "clash of civilization" view that you're a Muslim or a Hindu or a Buddhist or…

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Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that…

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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…

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Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects…

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“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up…

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Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.

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I think the whole progress over the last two or three millennia has been entirely dependent on ideas and techniques and commodities and people…

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No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.

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To say that certainly America was very lucky to get a large amount of land, and the native Indians were extremely unlucky to have…

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The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.

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We need to ask the moral questions: Do I have a right to be rich? And do I have a right to be content…

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“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…

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One has to be realistic. Ones concern for equity and justice in the world must not carry one into the alien territory of unreasoned…

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While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.

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I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.

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If jobs are important, education is important.

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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…

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