[The] USA has been immensely successful in making the determination to deal with terrorism [as] a factor in the global world and,… — 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
After all, the American society has been also based on the premise of expanding education very early. That's been [one] of the… — 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
There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
[Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well. — 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
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