--- title: "10 Needs Quotes By Amartya Sen" description: "10 Needs quotes by Amartya Sen. Plus more from Amartya Sen and more Needs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6b/amartya-sen-2518_differences_education-makes-human-beings-more-articu_2444760.jpg" --- > [Education makes human beings more articulate. It transforms people. You can think differently about the world. It makes it possible for you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/education-makes-human-beings-more-articulate-it-transforms-people-you/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6b/amartya-sen-2518_differences_education-makes-human-beings-more-articu_2444760.jpg) > [There's no reason why one need not look at the content of education just as one is expanding the availability of school,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/there-s-no-reason-why-one-need-not-look-at-the-content-of-education/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80d/amartya-sen-2518_availability_there-s-no-reason-why-one-need-not-look_875032.png) > [It’s scandalous when one thinks about the people who live in a world in which they need not be hungry, in which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/it-s-scandalous-when-one-thinks-about-the-people-who-live-in-a-world/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90e/amartya-sen-2518_care_it-s-scandalous-when-one-thinks-about-th_2886221.png) > [But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/but-once-we-recognize-that-many-ideas-that-are-taken-to-be/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9db/amartya-sen-2518_brotherhood_but-once-we-recognize-that-many-ideas-th_1339209.png) > [ There's absolutely no reason why at the level of basic schooling that there should be any inequity whatsoever. And \[that's\] the first… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/there-s-absolutely-no-reason-why-at-the-level-of-basic-schooling-that/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca9/amartya-sen-2518_education_there-s-absolutely-no-reason-why-at-the_3169801.jpg) > [The best hope for peace in the world lies in the simple but far-reaching recognition that we all have many different associations…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/the-best-hope-for-peace-in-the-world-lies-in-the-simple-but-far/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a01/amartya-sen-2518_affiliation_the-best-hope-for-peace-in-the-world-lie_1194933.jpg) > [Globalization can be very unjust and unfair and unequal, but these are matters under our control. It’s not that we don’t need…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/globalization-can-be-very-unjust-and-unfair-and-unequal-but-these-are/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58e/amartya-sen-2518_dominance_globalization-can-be-very-unjust-and-unf_1380507.png) > [We need to ask the moral questions: Do I have a right to be rich? And do I have a right to…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81d/amartya-sen-2518_asks_we-need-to-ask-the-moral-questions-do-i_151616.png) > [Every time you have an opportunity of opening a school, its fee and funding is really relatively small in comparison with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/every-time-you-have-an-opportunity-of-opening-a-school-its-fee-and/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/101/amartya-sen-2518_bigs_every-time-you-have-an-opportunity-of-op_3010849.jpg) > [We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/we-live-in-a-world-where-there-is-a-need-for-pluralistic-institutions/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/74c/amartya-sen-2518_different_we-live-in-a-world-where-there-is-a-need_2168664.png) ## Other authors on Needs ## 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/needs/amartya-sen/#itemlist", "name": "10 Needs Quotes By Amartya Sen", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Education makes human beings more articulate. It transforms people. You can think differently about the world. It makes it possible for you to get jobs. It makes a dramatic difference. 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