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
No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy. — 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
One has to be realistic. Ones concern for equity and justice in the world must not carry one into the alien territory… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
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
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
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 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
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
An Arab activist can take pride in the Arab heritage of mathematics and science or he can take pride in his religion,… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The best hope for peace in the world lies in the simple but far-reaching recognition that we all have many different associations… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
To say that the whole of the industrial experience of Europe and America just shows the rewards of exploiting the Third World… — 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
Across the world, in Africa, Asia, Latin America, everywhere, there is a widespread recognition on the part of the parents, too, that… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
We might have reason to be driven! We live for a short stretch of time in a world we share with others.… — 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 believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social,… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Education can really transform the insecurities in the world into a bigger vision of what we are as human beings. — 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
The Arab world is also the world that produced some of the greatest improvements in mathematics and in science. Even today, when… — 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
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
80 percent of the export of armament in the world comes from the G8 countries. [The] United States alone exports about 50… — 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
