Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent Amartya Sen More Quotes by Amartya Sen More Quotes From Amartya Sen 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 any nation, but are presumed to be claims or entitlements of every human being. They differ, therefore, from constitutionally created rights guaranteed for specific people. Amartya Sen rights country people 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. Amartya Sen fighting goes-on education While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection. Amartya Sen unions philosophy two 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. Amartya Sen systematic development opportunity 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. Amartya Sen opportunity water people Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems. Amartya Sen gender inequality problem There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong. Amartya Sen kind identity ideas Anything that increases the voice of young women tends therefore to reduce the fertility rate. Amartya Sen fertility increase voice There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world. Amartya Sen womens-education social world Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror. Amartya Sen violence identity people I really do believe that education, despite this massive potential in transforming human lives, has not received the kind of attention that people should have given to it. Amartya Sen should-have believe people Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty Amartya Sen poverty freedom sometimes The Arab world is also the world that produced some of the greatest improvements in mathematics and in science. Even today, when a Princeton mathematician does an algorithm, he may not remember that "algorithm" derived from the name al-Khwarizmi, who is a ninth-century Arab mathematician. Amartya Sen algorithms names doe I think that so many of our abilities to do things depend on interaction with each other. Amartya Sen interaction ability thinking Democracy is a universal value Amartya Sen values universal democracy The identity of just one thing, the "clash of civilization" view that you're a Muslim or a Hindu or a Buddhist or a Christian, I think that's such a limited way of seeing humanity, and schools have the opportunity to bring out the fact that we have hundreds of identities. We have our national identity. We have our cultural identity, linguistic identity, religious identity. Yes, cultural identity, professional identity, all kinds of ways. Amartya Sen buddhist religious christian the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute Amartya Sen choices identity discovery No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor. Amartya Sen democratic independent country There are some people who say that theyre concerned only with poverty but not inequality. But I dont think that is a sustainable thought. A lot of poverty is, in fact, inequality because of the connection between income and capabilityhaving adequate resources to take part in the life of the community. Amartya Sen community people thinking 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
