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Amartya Sen Inspirational Quotes (130)

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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.
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If the government is vulnerable to public opinion, then famines are a dreadfully bad thing to have. You can’t win many elections after a famine, and you don’t like being criticized by newspapers, opposition parties in parliament, and so on. Democracy gives the government an immediate political incentive to act.
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I remain instinctively hostile to communitarian philosophy and communitarian politics.
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In all kinds of ways there are different freedoms that effect our lives and you can assess what our lives are like by looking at the various freedoms that we have.
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Democracy is a universal value
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[N]o democracy with a free press has ever experienced a major famine.
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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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There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.
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[Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.
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Empowering women is key to building a future we want
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Development cannot really be so centered only on those in power.
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No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor.
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I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.
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Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.
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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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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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A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.
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Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.
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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.
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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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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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Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty
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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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A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.
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