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I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.
Amartya Sen
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Amartya Sen
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: November 3
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If the government is vulnerable to public opinion, then famines are a dreadfully bad thing to have. You cant win many elections after a famine, and you dont like being criticized by newspapers, opposition parties in parliament, and so on. Democracy gives the government an immediate political incentive to act.
Amartya Sen
Even in areas like the most depressed region of India in terms of female education, namely Rajasthan, which has [one of] the lowest female literacy [rates] in India. Even there, 80 to 90 percent of the parents would like their girls to go to school. And indeed, about 80 percent would like them to be made compulsory.
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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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I think gender inequality is a problem that goes back a long, long time. In human society, as a whole, women have tended to have a kind of inferior position - very often combined with playing up women as great role [models].
Amartya Sen
Belonging to humanity is a great thing for us, and I think the schools can do it. So I think we can look after the quality of education on the school even as we expand the availability of schooling.
Amartya Sen
We need to ask the moral questions: Do I have a right to be rich? And do I have a right to be content living in a world with so much poverty and inequality? These questions motivate us to view the issue of inequality as central to human living.
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When the government is trying to penny-pinch and, at the same time, trying to keep a defense expenditure and so forth, which are regarded as quote unquote essential, the education is regarded inessential.
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I think one big thing about the United States is that the American population, they may be excited about Iraq or one thing or another, but basically has had a great deal of interest in humanitarian causes both within the country and abroad. Even when they criticize the mechanism to which it flows.
Amartya Sen
Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.
Amartya Sen
Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be.
Amartya Sen
The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.
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Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.
Amartya Sen
You cant prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why dont the governments stop them?
Amartya Sen
I have not had any serious non-academic job.
Amartya Sen
A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.
Amartya Sen
The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.
Amartya Sen
Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.
Amartya Sen
The exchange between different cultures can not possibly be seen as a threat, when it is friendly. But I believe that the dissatisfaction with the overall architecture often depends on the quality of leadership.
Amartya Sen
[Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.
Amartya Sen
But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.
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