I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another. — 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
Human life depends not only on income but also on social opportunities, [for example] what the state does for educating. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“Unaimed opulence, in general, is a roundabout, undependable, and wasteful way of improving the living standards of the poor.” — 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… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Across the world, in Africa, Asia, Latin America, everywhere, there is a widespread recognition on the part of the parents, too, that… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of… — 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… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“I consider the three years I spent in Santiniketan as the most fruitful of my life…. Santiniketan opened my eyes for the… — 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
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