Community Quote by Amartya Sen

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

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

“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

Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.

— Amartya Sen

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

No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.

— Amartya Sen

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

The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.

— Amartya Sen

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

“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

One has to be realistic. One’s concern for equity and justice in the world must not carry one into the alien territory of unreasoned…

— Amartya Sen

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