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
Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
In all kinds of ways there are different freedoms that effect our lives and you can assess what our lives are like… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
In absolutely every way, our lives are transformed by education and basic education in particular. So I would have thought that in… — 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
Women's education has a much greater impact [on], for example, fertility. Men's education, if our studies are correct, ha[s] almost no impact… — 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
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
Opportunity could be defined in so many ways. There's one way of defining it, equality of opportunity, which is in fact the… — 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
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
Women had always been thought of as looking after the family when men go and earn an income and they're the bread… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Education makes us the human beings we are. It has major impacts on economic development, on social equity, gender equity. In all… — 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 higher education has always appealed to the South Asian social leaders across all the countries in South Asia. But primary education… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old… — 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
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![“Women's education has a much greater impact [on], for example, fertility. Men's education, if our studies are correct, ha[s] almost no impact on fertility. Women's do. So, by the way, as a man, it's not to the glory of men specifically that it's women's education that reduces child mortality.” quote by Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/597/amartya-sen-2518_children_women-s-education-has-a-much-greater-imp_1521281.jpg)
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