Development cannot really be so centered only on those in power. Amartya Sen More Quotes by Amartya Sen More Quotes From Amartya Sen 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 and an active political opposition constitute the best early-warning system a country threaten by famines can have. Amartya Sen independent party country If jobs are important, education is important. Amartya Sen education-is-important important jobs The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life. Amartya Sen liberty reason loss Globalization is a complex issue, partly because economic globalization is only one part of it. Globalization is greater global closeness, and that is cultural, social, political, as well as economic. Amartya Sen economic-globalization issues political The opportunities, income, schools facilities, the basic income support that the government provides or any of these things .. public transport arrangements we have.. all these are part of the way our lives and freedoms are effected. Amartya Sen government opportunity school Each human being is a citizen of the world. We have many identities, of which one of the identities is our human identity. And that's something that the schools can provide, but that requires again a vision rather than being centers of hatred. It could be an enormous opportunity to give that mission. Amartya Sen opportunity giving school Education could be a great vehicle for gender equity. It allows people to see what your rights are by reading. Quite often women, for example, may have rights that they are not in the position to actually make use of. Amartya Sen reading rights people 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. Amartya Sen diversity simple lying 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). Amartya Sen loyalty giving people 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 government taken military We might have reason to be driven! We live for a short stretch of time in a world we share with others. Virtually everything we do is dependent on others, from the arts and culture to farmers who grow the food we eat. Amartya Sen culture world art Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be. Amartya Sen expansion poverty educational A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive. Amartya Sen argument defeated alive I don't think poverty provides that much of an obstacle to education as one thinks. I think the bigger obstacle to education is the fact that it's a very hard thing to do for a first-generation schoolgoer. Because not to have parents at home who can help you, motivate you, is a problem even when the parents are in the abstract very keen on children being educated. Amartya Sen home children thinking 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 Amartya Sen important taken humanity 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 ideas are not as culture-specific as is sometimes claimed. We need not begin with pessimism, at least on this ground, about the prospects of reasoned humanism in the world. Amartya Sen taken civilization ideas Theres a clear and strong connection between fertility reduction and womens literacy and empowerment, including womens gainful employment. If you look at the more than 300 districts of India, the strongest influences in explaining fertility variations are womens literacy and gainful economic employment. Amartya Sen empowerment india strong You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable. Amartya Sen inequality poverty issues [Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well. Amartya Sen economic-globalization people world Famines occur under a colonial administration, like the British Raj in India or for that matter in Ireland, or under military dictators in one country after another, like Somalia and Ethiopia, or in one-party states like the Soviet Union and China. Amartya Sen party military country
