The market economy succeeds not because some people's interests are suppressed and other people are kept out of the market, but because… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I think education has a bigger impact on the lives of people than absolutely anything else. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Its very easy to capture pictures of jubilant people in the street after the nuclear bomb. But there were no pictures of… — 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 really do believe that education, despite this massive potential in transforming human lives, has not received the kind of attention that… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The notion of human right builds on our shared humanity. These rights are not derived from the citizenship of any country, or… — 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… — 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
One has to bring the multidimensional impact that schooling makes in the lives of people. There's nothing like it, and I think… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it),… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Your voice is much more articulate and people listen to you if you've been to school. In family decisions, not surprisingly, the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
There are some people who say that theyre concerned only with poverty but not inequality. But I dont think that is a… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant ‘identity’ (‘this is your duty as an American’, ‘you must commit… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
South Korea at the end of the Second World War had a very low level of literacy. But suddenly, like in Japan,… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The understanding that women are not inferior across the world, it's something that you can get from school, not only from the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
It seems to me to be kind of inescapable that one has to be interested in the issue of gender and gender… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
If you're dealing with grappling [with] problems of feeding people, the biggest impact in fertility reduction is girls' schools. Schooled girls make… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Education makes human beings more articulate. It transforms people. You can think differently about the world. It makes it possible for you… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Education could be a great vehicle for gender equity. It allows people to see what your rights are by reading. Quite often… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
[Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Its scandalous when one thinks about the people who live in a world in which they need not be hungry, in which… — 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
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
![“If you're dealing with grappling [with] problems of feeding people, the biggest impact in fertility reduction is girls' schools. Schooled girls make a bigger impact on that than any other factor - not these various regulations [such as] you have to have one child or that. It turns out that none of…” quote by Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c44/amartya-sen-2518_bigger_if-you-re-dealing-with-grappling-with-pr_419650.jpg)
![“[Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.” quote by Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4ef/amartya-sen-2518_economic-globalizati_globalization-has-enriched-the-world-sci_3105640.jpg)
