You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be. — 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 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
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
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
Poverty is a big barrier if you are at the bottom layer of society, don't know where the next meal is coming… — 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
I don't think poverty provides that much of an obstacle to education as one thinks. I think the bigger obstacle to education… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Development requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
We live in a world community, and economic contact has partly contributed to that. Its also the case that economic opportunity opened… — 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
