Amartya Sen Quotes

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• we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have to make sure…
• The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for their own sake.…
• I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it), rather than in…
• The best hope for peace in the world lies in the simple but far-reaching recognition that we all have many different associations and affiliations, and…
• But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also see that these…
• Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.
• Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that shape human behaviour…
• A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.
• Unceasing change turns the wheel of life, and so reality is shown in all it's many forms. Dwell peacefully as change itself liberates all suffering…
• The notion of human right builds on our shared humanity. These rights are not derived from the citizenship of any country, or the membership of…
• If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither…
• The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.
• Development requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities as…
• Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.
• Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.
• I have not had any serious non-academic job.
• From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.
• But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.
• I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.
• I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.

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