I think in those countries, including my own in India, where I think primary education has been badly neglected by successive governments,… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I dont think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The anti-globalization movement is one of the biggest globalized events of the contemporary world, people coming from everywhere, Australia, Indonesia, Britain, India,… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Even in areas like the most depressed region of India in terms of female education, namely Rajasthan, which has [one of] the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Theres a clear and strong connection between fertility reduction and womens literacy and empowerment, including womens gainful employment. If you look at… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
In India, [in] the great documents like [the] Upanishads in eighth century B.C., you find some of the wisest [women] making great,… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The higher education has always appealed to the South Asian social leaders across all the countries in South Asia. But primary education… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Famines occur under a colonial administration, like the British Raj in India or for that matter in Ireland, or under military dictators… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
When I was giving a lecture in India, the capabilities that I have to be concerned with there, namely the ability of… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old… — 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
![“Even in areas like the most depressed region of India in terms of female education, namely Rajasthan, which has [one of] the lowest female literacy [rates] in India. Even there, 80 to 90 percent of the parents would like their girls to go to school. And indeed, about 80 percent would like them to…” quote by Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b62/amartya-sen-2518_areas_even-in-areas-like-the-most-depressed-re_1551003.jpg)
![“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 I think there has been a kind of dual presence of…” quote by Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2dd/amartya-sen-2518_able_in-india-in-the-great-documents-like-the_2479950.jpg)
