I think education has a bigger impact on the lives of people than absolutely anything else. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I dont think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I think one big thing about the United States is that the American population, they may be excited about Iraq or one… — 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
I think just as armament had a major impact of a negative kind in the world, education is something which has a… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I think the UN's role - especially since it's not an extremely rich fund, and that's to put it mildly - is… — 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
I'm very skeptical of the amount of money that goes into military expenditure, not just in the poor countries [but] also in… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I was told Indian women don't think like that about equality. But I would like to argue that if they don't think… — 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
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
Japan became an imperialist country in many ways, but that was much later, after it had already made big progress. I dont… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I think that so many of our abilities to do things depend on interaction with each other. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I think gender inequality is a problem that goes back a long, long time. In human society, as a whole, women have… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I think in those countries, including my own in India, where I think primary education has been badly neglected by successive governments,… — 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
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
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
I think East Asian countries, I think they're very fortunate to have Buddhism survive as a strong influence because right from the… — 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
South Korea from a country that had relatively little primary education became close to universal literacy in the course of 25, 30… — 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
In India, [in] the great documents like [the] Upanishads in eighth century B.C., you find some of the wisest [women] making great,… — 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
![“I'm very skeptical of the amount of money that goes into military expenditure, not just in the poor countries [but] also in the rich. I think it's one of the most massive wastes in the world, but education is [at the] other end. It's the bearer of the greatest fruits that mankind has ever known.” quote by Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/16a/amartya-sen-2518_amount_i-m-very-skeptical-of-the-amount-of-mone_685148.jpg)
![“I think gender inequality is a problem that goes back a long, long time. In human society, as a whole, women have tended to have a kind of inferior position - very often combined with playing up women as great role [models].” quote by Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2fd/amartya-sen-2518_gender_i-think-gender-inequality-is-a-problem-t_2369490.jpg)
![“I think East Asian countries, I think they're very fortunate to have Buddhism survive as a strong influence because right from the time when Buddha himself, 2,500 years ago, made the point about the importance of education, and the word "Buddha" also means enlighten[ed] or educated. So all the…” quote by Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d15/amartya-sen-2518_asian_i-think-east-asian-countries-i-think-the_2344083.jpg)
![“In India, [in] the great documents like [the] Upanishads in eighth century B.C., you find some of the wisest [women] making great, learned speeches and then you worship them, but actually don't do very much about girls' education generally. So I think there has been a kind of dual presence of…” quote by Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2dd/amartya-sen-2518_able_in-india-in-the-great-documents-like-the_2479950.jpg)
