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Amartya Sen
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: November 3
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Amartya Kumar Sen
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Capability is just a concept of what is it we're looking at. Now how far we can go along that and what new capabilities become possible is something we have to judge.
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Women's education has a much greater impact [on], for example, fertility. Men's education, if our studies are correct, ha[s] almost no impact on fertility. Women's do. So, by the way, as a man, it's not to the glory of men specifically that it's women's education that reduces child mortality.
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No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor.
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Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be.
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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.
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I think education has a bigger impact on the lives of people than absolutely anything else.
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Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty
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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.
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Opponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly.
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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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Ultimately, imperialism made even the British working classes suffer. This is a point which the British working classes found quite difficult to swallow, but they did, actually.
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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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There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.
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From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.
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Across the world, in Africa, Asia, Latin America, everywhere, there is a widespread recognition on the part of the parents, too, that the children's life will go much better by being educated. And that applies to girls as well as boys.
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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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The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.
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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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You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable.
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The market economy succeeds not because some people's interests are suppressed and other people are kept out of the market, but because people gain individual advantage from it.
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