Amartya Sen

If jobs are important, education is important.

— Amartya Sen

“one must go through war to reach peace.4”

— Amartya Sen

Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.

— Amartya Sen

I have not had any serious non-academic job.

— Amartya Sen

Democracy is a universal value

— Amartya Sen

Empowering women is key to building a future we want

— Amartya Sen

The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.

— Amartya Sen

Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent

— Amartya Sen

Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical

— Amartya Sen

Education can really transform the insecurities in the world into a bigger vision of what we are as human beings.

— Amartya Sen

There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world.

— Amartya Sen

There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.

— Amartya Sen

A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.

— Amartya Sen

No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor.

— Amartya Sen

I was told Indian women don't think like that about equality. But I would like to argue that if they don't think…

— Amartya Sen

The market economy succeeds not because some people's interests are suppressed and other people are kept out of the market, but because…

— Amartya Sen

The governments and the hard-headed military establishment and the general conservative part of America have never taken much interest in democracy, anyway.

— 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…

— Amartya Sen

Thailand's economic development was driven by educational expansion. That has been a very dramatic factor, and South Asia had been pretty miserable…

— Amartya Sen

Your voice is much more articulate and people listen to you if you've been to school. In family decisions, not surprisingly, the…

— Amartya Sen

The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest…

— 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…

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The best hope for peace in the world lies in the simple but far-reaching recognition that we all have many different associations…

— Amartya Sen

There are some people who say that they’re concerned only with poverty but not inequality. But I don’t think that is a…

— Amartya Sen

The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant ‘identity’ (‘this is your duty as an American’, ‘you must commit…

— Amartya Sen

Globalization can be very unjust and unfair and unequal, but these are matters under our control. It’s not that we don’t need…

— Amartya Sen

The identity of just one thing, the "clash of civilization" view that you're a Muslim or a Hindu or a Buddhist or…

— Amartya Sen

An Arab activist can take pride in the Arab heritage of mathematics and science or he can take pride in his religion,…

— Amartya Sen

The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for…

— Amartya Sen

I'm very skeptical of the amount of money that goes into military expenditure, not just in the poor countries [but] also in…

— Amartya Sen

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

— Amartya Sen

80 percent of the export of armament in the world comes from the G8 countries. [The] United States alone exports about 50…

— Amartya Sen

There may be countries [where] there's no gender inequality in schooling, even in higher education, but [where there is] gender inequality in…

— Amartya Sen

Every time you have an opportunity of opening a school, its fee and funding is really relatively small in comparison with the…

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South Korea at the end of the Second World War had a very low level of literacy. But suddenly, like in Japan,…

— Amartya Sen

Women had always been thought of as looking after the family when men go and earn an income and they're the bread…

— Amartya Sen

The understanding that women are not inferior across the world, it's something that you can get from school, not only from the…

— Amartya Sen

I think education has a bigger impact on the lives of people than absolutely anything else.

— Amartya Sen

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

— Amartya Sen

Being able to read, write, do your sums really transforms a human being.

— Amartya Sen