Best Amartya Sen Quotes
- Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to… Characteristic
- Development cannot really be so centered only on those in power. Cannot Really
- Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to achieve sufficient nutrition,… Achieve
- Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being Capability
- Empowering women is key to building a future we want Building
- Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical Development
- There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children Children
- Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather… Advancing
- Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it. Already Half
- To conclude this discussion, assessment of justice demands engagement with the 'eyes of mankind',first, because we may variously identify with the others elsewhere and not… Action
- People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with… Asians
- While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection. Both
- When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy,… Aimed
- It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality Arbitrarily
- A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive. Alive
- Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot. Feet
- the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute Attribute
- Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms from opposition parties… Active
- The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant ‘identity’ (‘this is your duty as an American’, ‘you must commit these acts as… Acts
- I was told Indian women don't think like that about equality. But I would like to argue that if they don't think like that they… Argue
- Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty Directly
- Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that we have many… According
- Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends. Broadens
- The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world. Analytical