Each human being is a citizen of the world. We have many identities, of which one of the identities is our human… — 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
The fact that schools can actually be a major factor in cementing the world is a factor that's worth considering, the fact… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
There's no reason why one need not look at the content of education just as one is expanding the availability of school,… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The opportunities, income, schools facilities, the basic income support that the government provides or any of these things .. public transport arrangements… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Belonging to humanity is a great thing for us, and I think the schools can do it. So I think we can… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest… — 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
One of the things that any kind of studies bring out is that the mere act of schooling - getting together, the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
[To organize a school] looks much more difficult in theory than it does in practice. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The identity of just one thing, the "clash of civilization" view that you're a Muslim or a Hindu or a Buddhist or… — 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
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
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
Every time you have an opportunity of opening a school, its fee and funding is really relatively small in comparison with 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