Amartya Sen Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Empowering women is key to building a future we want”
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“Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being”
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“Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical”
-- Amartya SenSource : "Amartya Sen: India's dirty fighter". Interview With Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2013.
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“While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.”
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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 that sectarian schooling does not convert education into a prison, rather than being a passport to the wide world.”
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“A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.”
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“If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour based on sympathy is in an important sense egoistic, for one is oneself pleased at others' pleasure and pained at others' pain, and the pursuit of one's own utility may thus be helped by sympathetic action.”
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“A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.”
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“There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.”
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“the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute”
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“The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.”
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“Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.”
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“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 and independent newspapers, cannot help but make such an effort. Not surprisingly, while India continued to have famines under British rule right up to independence … they disappeared suddenly with the establishment of a multiparty democracy and a free press. … a free press and an active political opposition constitute the best early-warning system a country threaten by famines can have”
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“[Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.”
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“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 a Muslim’, or ‘as a Chinese you should give priority to this national engagement’) is not only an imposition of an external and arbitrary priority, but also the denial of an important liberty of a person who can decide on their respective loyalties to different groups (to all of which he or she belongs).”
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“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 and judgment.”
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“No substantial famine has ever occurred in any independent and democratic country with a relatively free press.”
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“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 than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it.”
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“Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.”
-- Amartya SenSource : Amartya Sen (2011). “Development as Freedom”, p.10, Anchor
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“Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.”
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“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 well as intolerance or overactivity of repressive states.”
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“There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children”
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“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 sentient beings and brings them great joy.”
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“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”
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“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 should be given a real opportunity to think like that.”
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“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 terms of the grossly undifferentiated picture of aggregate food supply for the economy as a whole.”
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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 and affiliations, and we need not see ourselves as being rigidly divided by a single categorization of hardened groups, which confront each other.”
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“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, or to obtain remedies for treatable illnesses or the opportunity to be adequatley clothed or sheltered, or to enjoy clean water or sanitary facilities.”
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“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. They expand our freedom to lead the lives we have reason to value, and these elementary capabilities are of importance on their own”
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