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Amartya Sen
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: November 3
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Amartya Kumar Sen
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No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.
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[To organize a school] looks much more difficult in theory than it does in practice.
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To say that the whole of the industrial experience of Europe and America just shows the rewards of exploiting the Third World is a gross simplification.
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The themes that the anti-globalization protesters bring to the discussion are of extraordinary importance. However, the theses that they often bring to it, sometimes in the form of slogans, are often oversimple.
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No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor.
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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.
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People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities.
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If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither necessary nor sufficient.
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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].
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Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community to be able to talk about subjects that interest me and there freedom of speech comes into it.
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Human life depends not only on income but also on social opportunities, [for example] what the state does for educating.
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From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.
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It was incredible to me that members of one community could kill members of another not for anything personal that they did but simply based on their identity.
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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.
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I remain instinctively hostile to communitarian philosophy and communitarian politics.
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Its scandalous when one thinks about the people who live in a world in which they need not be hungry, in which they need not die without medical care, in which they need not be illiterate, they need not feel hopeless and miserable so much of the time, and yet they are.
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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.
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I'm generally in favor of economic globalization. Having said that, it doesnt always work and does not immediately work in the interest of all. There are sufferers.
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I think the UN's role - especially since it's not an extremely rich fund, and that's to put it mildly - is mainly to act as a leading thinker of the world in terms of how to think about the future.
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I dont think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad.
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