Causation Quote by Amartya Sen

I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

— Jenny Holzer

In the 1970s when I started in the art world, no self-respecting artist would have stood in line to try to get on a…

— Jeffrey Deitch

Famines occur under a colonial administration, like the British Raj in India or for that matter in Ireland, or under military dictators in one…

— Amartya Sen

You can’t prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why don’t the governments stop…

— Amartya Sen

I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it), rather than…

— Amartya Sen

Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms from opposition…

— Amartya Sen

If the government is vulnerable to public opinion, then famines are a dreadfully bad thing to have. You can’t win many elections after a…

— Amartya Sen

Social mores change all the time. In the mid-1970s, it would've been astonishing, say, to see two men holding hands in the streets. And…

— Robert Harris

In the mid-1970s I worked at Vauxhall Manor school, a girls comprehensive in south London.

— Michael Rosen

“The period that I would anoint as the golden era in American journalism was from the mid 1950s to the mid 1970s. It had…

— Anonymous

In the mid-1970s, I was teaching design at the Academy of Applied Arts in Budapest.

— Erno Rubik

I was born at the end of the 1993. The regime stopped giving food to the people. Three million people died from 1995 to…

— Park Yeon-mi